The Dead Will Be The Fortunate

Ironic, that honest efforts to improve his physical condition & allow for a few brief moments to be spared from the constant search for food, shelter & safety is how homo moronicus will manage to kill himself, rather than the bombast of atomic war & nuclear winter. (Probably. But death by testosterone is always on the table.)

Over & over we said: "Don't bother. Doesn't matter. Makes no difference. So what. Why even try? GIVE THE FUCK UP, ALREADY!!" And we were right. Even doing "good" is "bad," if you'll pardon such limited delineation of possible actions, so just knock it off, whatever it is.

The second is that there will come a point where global warming becomes a self reinforcing cycle. With no glacial caps and with the methane released from Siberia, even radical decreases in human CO2 dumping will probably not be sufficient to stop the cycle.

Add to this the severe water shortages we can expect, which will hit large parts of Africa, a huge swathe of China, much of India and a big chunk of the US, as aquifers are drained down to effectively zero, and you have a recipe for huge loss of life and destabilizing migratory movements.

It is also entirely possible that large parts of the tropics will become effectively uninhabitable, the combination of humidity and temperature will be so high that it will literally be lethal to be outside air conditioning for any length of time for much of the year.

If world population is only reduced by a billion, I will be amazed. I also expect some serious wars. Our civilization will not go quietly into that long long night.

Yes, a billion is a round number, pulled from the air, but we always tell people to aim for the stars. It hurts more when they have farther to flop.