Posted by 2Xplorations How else do you explain whats going on? The end is near. Nearer than you think.
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I've always been fond of the explanation that the Mayan calendar was right about the apocalypse starting in 2012, it just took a few years for the effects to be visible.
My major is conservation biology and most of my classes are environmentally focused. The main lesson I've taken away is that we're all utterly fucked. Katrina scale hurricanes used to be a once in a decade event. We had three last year, and another this year. Temperature instability is leading to hotter summers and colder winters like the heat waves and polar vortex, and agricultural food supplies will take the brunt of the damage in time. 1/4 of the world faces severe water shortages in the next decade, and rising ocean levels threaten to create unprecedented refugee crises by 2050 as major population centers are submerged, including but not limited to all of Florida, New Orleans and NYC, 1/3 of Bangladesh, 1/2 of the Netherlands, and the entirety of the Maldives.
Meanwhile fascism is on the rise around the globe, economists say we're heading for another recession cycle, our president is opening internment camps for "undesirables", mass shootings and hate crimes are on the rise, police brutality plagues our nation, and horrific diseases long dead are making a comeback in the age of antibiotic resistance because people won't vaccinate their goddamn kids.
Sorry for the long rant, it's just that I can't help feeling like we're all fucked and nothing can be done about it. I know I've talked to a lot of my peers about this and they feel the same way. We're inheriting a world that feels broken beyond repair and we don't know how we can possibly fix it.