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How long until society's collapse? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by original_reader@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With worrying global trends like climate change, pollution, increasingly divided or radical governments, economic woes, misinformation and disinformation everywhere, dangerous health crises and so on, what do you think - how much time do we have before "it all comes crashing down"? What will end life or our way of life as we know it first?

Or do you think we'll make it? If so, how?

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 13 points 5 months ago

It's not going to collapse over night. Instead, things are going to get worse and worse gradually, with each step backward becoming the new normal.

Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, we'll all just carry on until one day we're like just chilling in our debris city, hoping we don't have to sell any teeth for bottle caps in order to buy food today when some ghoul comes storming in and shoots up the place trying to murder a harmless old man with a dog, and then some naive vault dweller tries to intervene, but she only makes the problem worse and we'll all wonder how the hell we got here.