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They've been making these kinds of predictions for a long time. This doesn't mean that there aren't very real existential threats to humanity around every corner, we may well experience a complete disaster, lord knows our logistics chain is delicate and largely ignored and props up everything we care about.

But what a lot of people miss in all of these predictions, is how adaptable and malleable human life is.

Will there be flooded cities and shanty-towns across coasts? Probably. Will there be gleaming cities of solar-powered utopia? Also probably. Will there be unrest, crime and war and famine? Absolutely. Will there be new comforts and escapes and new ways to stay safe and protected by your state in return for your attention, your money and your time? Also absolutely. Will it all be fragile? Yes, and it is now as well.

The future doesn't hold just one thing, it holds many things. The future has always been the same: more of everything and then some. Look at us now, people predicted by this time we would have flying cars and robots... which we do! In some places. But we also still have uncontacted amazonian tribes, so we have everything we had in the previous century plus more.

A bridge collaoaes and no one foxes it

But... I want them to fox the bridges :(

Notice they also admitted that they can't read "walls of text" either so this is just the modern generation of "just put the [THING] in the bag" and "I ain't readin all that" mentality that spending more than seven seconds of attention on something is "cringe."

We probably deserve the coming apocalyptic horrors being spawned by man and nature alike.

Makes sense to me, it's even punctuated accurately and effectively outlines the premise of the meme. It's just a sentence you have to slow down and turn off your "internet scroller" brain for a moment and use your "communication" brain.

If it gets really bad, Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter and Cory Booker will, like... stand in one spot for a long time talking about stuff.

When you get called out for being fascist, you say "I just want to conserve our old values" and decent, civilized people buy that, not thinking anyone would be so morally bankrupt that they would want more than that for their own selfish desires to see people hurt.

We have as big a problem with decent, civilized people as we do with fascism. We have to get everyone a lot less decent and "civilized" about what's going on, and that starts with you, tender, shy, anti-social leftists reading all this. You care? You have to start caring about the right things, get off Lemmy and discord and stop bickering about little lefty issues and start fighting the right people.

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I guess I’m not allowed to celebrate one bright spot in the enclosing darkness

Celebrate or doomer whatever you want, but a lot of us who still do care about larger things still want to do what we can to mitigate damage, and stories like this one are more damaging than beneficial to that cause. I would encourage finding a middle-ground between hopeless despair and "celebration" about anything.

People only read headlines and stories like this gain traction because it makes people think they don't need to care about something anymore, and our species is profoundly lazy and eager to stop worrying about even existential threats to their own existence.

This is the most uplifting science article I’ve read in a while.

Adding into the "not really" chorus here.

The real problem isn't just honeybees, and in fact honeybees make a percentage of all actual wild pollination, and the leaders in the wild ecosystems are beetles and flies, which are dying off so rapidly that you can drive cross-country in many parts of the US now without needing to clean your windshields.

Insects broadly are in massive decline due to wide scale pesticide by agriculture and neighborhood pest control. We can't make up for this difference with honeybees.

For honey producers. This isn't going to help our ecosystem broadly.

edit: your weird pushback on these ideas tells me I need to antagonize you fucks even harder into getting mobilized.

And the problem isn't just bees either. Broadly, insect populations are in free-fall. There are many stretches of highway in the US now where you don't need to clean your windshield after hours on the road. We've lost a massive chunk of our flying pollinator population, to say nothing of the roles they play in the food chains.

Massive-scale farming and pesticide use is going to leave us starving, ironically enough.

I lived in the Southwest when the africanized bees arrived, and there was indeed a sharp increase in attacks, a couple deaths over a a number of years, a lot of pets getting attacked. Then people just moved on and people learned to not fuck around with hives.

I don't know if it was the queens de-agressing in the new environment or public awareness or just media hype dying down, or all of the above, but yeah, it turned out to be the least of our actual worries in the 21st century.

adricanized

Really? three times?

lots of us said that this would be exactly what would be happening

And this is also what they wanted, they WANT people to start firing on cops in masks, this is the escalation they need to make the excuse for turning the US into a massive locked-down corporate prison.

"What's that? People are shooting at our precious law enforcement heroes?? Let loose the Palantir Drones! FLY MY PRETTIES!"

Do you idiots really want to take a count of deaths per watt generated? Go right ahead.

They don't care about facts; I have fought this fight for way too long and they don't care.

To most anti-progressive/reactionaries/conservatives in the US, windmills represent a "leftist" ideology, they represent an acknowledgement of climate change, and are thus part of the enemy and that's about as far as it goes. The brain is an amazing tool, it invents stories to reinforce any feeling, even more readily if someone supplies a story, so they cling to the "dead birds" BS because it sounds right and feels good to paint leftists as inconsistent and hateful of the animals they claim to want to protect. It's not factual, it's narrative.

If we all got better about trying to fight narratives with new narratives instead of bashing our head against these mindless clams with facts and statistics, we would change the world.

I know this was a joke but the number of people out there who think that windmills actually "blow" in some way makes my brain want to leap out of my head and hurl itself into the sea.

Faster returns by gambling on a bubble/grift. Nobody is actually thinking about the future, not for our planet and not even for themselves.

The fact that there are leftists who equate accountability and pointing out problems and criticism against the movement as "centrism" is pretty glaring proof that we have MAGA on both sides of this fetid horseshoe. I hope the next generation of kids growing up reading all this form better ideas. Or just burn the world down faster, our species deserves either.

The number of people who took their masks off indoors and put them on outside made my goddamn BRAIN melt, and led to one of my larger despair-induced mental health breakdowns.

I knew it was bad, I knew a lot of people were kind of ignorant... but I had no idea it was THAT bad, I even got alienated from some family groups because I tried to explain germ theory and they said I sounded too hyped up on politics or something to that effect.