David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon

[Moostache]

7. We will never hit 10 Billion...

The reason I know this is that ALL climate change data has been seriously DOWNPLAYED to date. ALL projections were given on the most conservative possible set of predictions, with the least dire and least urgent calls to action, until now...

That indicates the truth is coming and coming hard and fast. They can no longer pretend that climate disruption is not an existential threat to humanity because the effects are becoming too obvious to hide or claim the "500 year flood" or "1,000 year drought" is the explanation.

We have been duped and lied to for decades. The real last chance to prevent the worst of the coming disaster died when Reagan tore the solar panels off of the White House and set a course to further tie economic output (growing GDP through increased energy inputs / fossil fuel usage) and financial stability (EVERYONE'S livelihood/job/career) together. We missed the chance to begin reforming the economy and the way in which we assigned value from competitive capitalism to resource-based allocation then, and now there is really no going back...it is way past too late to avoid billions of deaths in the next 2-3 decades. The 20th century thought it was big and bad with 2 world wars...well, the 21st is going to top them all and it won't be close either...

I am through caring. The worst is going to happen in my lifetime, I am going to witness horrific genocide and nuclear warfare (India and Pakistan first, followed by Israel and the Arab states and maybe even Russia and China as farmlands dwindle and population culling becomes necessary to make it through another orbit of the sun without starving. The world has no hope because the world has no leaders. We have people who are out to steal all they can for themselves and don't realize that the money can't save them any more than it could save people on Titanic.

We hit the metaphorical iceberg decades ago and since then we have seen the collective leadership of the planet fiddle as the fires rose and the cities burned. Its now "game over" and the worst part about that is knowing that it is going to happen as surely as knowing a pen held above my desk is going to fall if I release it.

I don't care to try to eke out an existence in a post-civilization, Darwinian nightmare landscape. I want no part of a world where every waking hour must be devoted to scrapping up enough food and water to merely make it to the next sunrise. That is not living, that is subsistence slavery and I won't participate. I will be part of the die off when civilization collapses and I will consider myself one of the lucky ones when it happens. Those who live to the bitter end will see horrors that a sane mind cannot even contemplate currently.