Sooo….what’s going to kill us first?
Climate change (in all its wonderful forms)?
Microplastics?
AI?
Trump?
That asteroid that’s supposed to hit us in a few years?
Covid?
The after-effects of everyone getting Covid because NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE ANYMORE?
Bird flu?
Whatever the next pandemic is going to be?
World War III?
Whatever it’ll be, I hope it will be quick.
The odds are that we / will probably be / all dead
I’m calling it now: humanity has about ten more years before life starts getting very difficult.
Extreme weather affecting large swaths of the world’s population. Heat waves beyond human survivability. Extreme water shortages. Excessive forest fires. New diseases and illnesses brought on by climate change.
I just think things are going to get really bad and are going to do so a lot faster than people think.
Ten years. At most. So get ready.
IT’S SUMMER, SUMMER, SUMMER!!!!!
(Well, not technically, but you know what I mean)
Time for another “how am I supposed to care about my present or future when the world is on fire and our generation probably won’t make it to retirement on a survivable planet?”
What’s it going to be this summer, eh?
Ridiculous wildfires?
Crop-destroying, river-draining droughts?
Crippling, month-long heatwaves?
ALL OF THE ABOVE????? ?? ???
???
Edit: Jesus Christ, Phoenix.
Are You Angry? I’m Angry.
I’m angry about climate change.
I’m angry about the fact that our futures are probably going to be mired in at least some degree of misery (if not destroyed entirely) due to intense heat/intense weather/water shortages/food shortages/any other number of issues brought on by climate change.
I’m angry over how many people don’t think that humans have contributed at least a little bit to the current climate trends. That is so infuriating.
I’m angry over how many people are just gleefully pooping out kids without realizing that the future they’re leaving these kids to deal with will not be a fun one. I’m looking at you, fellow Millennials. I thought we were smarter than that.
I’m angry that summers have lost their magic and are now just three-/four-months stretches of record-breaking temperatures and drought.
I’m just angry.
Are you?
(Fear of a) HEAT WAAAAAAAAVE
So is anyone else, like, terrified of summers now?
Summer is typically my favorite time of year – long hours of daylight, good running weather, nice and warm, etc. But after last year’s heat dome and how absolutely horrible that week or so was, there have been a few moments where I’ve been in almost a legit panic about summer happening again.
I think part of it is just a general fear of the future and the thought that this will probably be the norm sooner rather than later. Like…will last year be one of the cooler summers in the next twenty years?
That’s horrifying.
Not to mention all the stuff with the water shortages in the southwest. That’s also extremely worrying.
I hate everything. I hate that our future will just be getting worse and worse and at this point there’s probably nothing we can do about it.
