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In reply to the discussion: Doomsday Preppers [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)According to studies based on a more conservative IPCC v4 report, the staples will not be able to grow in America by 2050. Another study points out that up to 3 billion will face famine by 2100 (and we could conceivably reach +4.8C by then according to the leaked IPCC report). Crops are already failing. Its a matter of time, and we have no feasible way to reduce atmospheric carbon to baseline while growing our economy.
The governments twiddle their thumbs. They grow more irrelevant each day. Politics is becoming meaningless, as it cannot provide solutions to our foremost crisis. Perhaps it could, but it refuses to help strengthen resilience in the face of impending disaster.
So its up to the people. In isolation, they turn to freak groups on the internet. They endorse all sorts of strange ideas, believing force is of utmost importance to survival.
We learn now that they raise children. What happens in 20 years when swaths of unguided preppers raise children? How much of this will we see?
The governments twiddle. They are irrelevant. Our machine is only producing ecosystem death or deranged lunatics trying to save themselves, who raise children in an existential crisis.
This is somewhat uncharted territory. What will the future bring, when more and more of these children grow into adulthood?
Our future doesn't look so rosy