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(DIR) Post #AxRLalRbMZcOQwUbrc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:15:49Z
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If anyone tells you that they can explain all of the craziness of the world in a single theory be skeptical. The world is complex and many factors drive history. I do think there is one vector of pressure that we don't talk about directly very often that is playing a role in a lot of political edginess. From nativism, to the rightward swing of the UK and US the silent actor is climate change.Because at this point wealthy people know that it is real and I think some of them are panicking.
(DIR) Post #AxRLngxBN1ouGqQdnM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:18:09Z
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Their panic takes two forms, one more apocalyptic than the other. The first is the sobering realization that if there were wider public awareness of climate change and what it means for all of us people would expect their governments to "do something" and this would disrupt a balance of power that is currently working for them. The more extreme version of this panic is a kind of bunker mentality. There will be more refugees in the future, not fewer. Food prices will be higher.
(DIR) Post #AxRM2yYUD5LnCmAIuu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:20:55Z
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Some people find this terrifying. Their first thought is: close the borders! invade greenland!And to some degree I think the wider public is becoming more aware, it won't help when they realize that they have been tricked that the seriousness of the problem has been hidden from them and downplayed.
(DIR) Post #AxRM3zg7WHtGyhDn3w by gabbywheels@toad.social
2025-08-22T21:21:00Z
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@futurebird How long before no one can insure their home? "It's your own fault for buying in a flood plain." will turn into to, "What did you expect moving into that town, city, state?"
(DIR) Post #AxRMFlUg5EUUSbTxZo by RiaResists@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T21:23:11Z
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@futurebird Yep. Been on my mind for about 15 years that all countries must prepare for climate refugees because they’re coming. The worst of the worst is leading America & the world to the worst outcome.Could be mitigating climate change but there’s not enough money in that.
(DIR) Post #AxRMKVNPQzMlvCLJ44 by chessert@mastodon.online
2025-08-22T21:24:03Z
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@futurebird I agree completely with your analysis here!
(DIR) Post #AxRMOydcaBvHph3fI8 by flockofnazguls@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T21:24:38Z
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@futurebird In other words, we're electing people who are using their privilege to save their own skins instead of governing. That has to change. Now.
(DIR) Post #AxRMRVxDgXt1jwR28W by rowlandm@disabled.social
2025-08-22T21:25:16Z
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@futurebird And you can include the psychological impact of COVID on top of that...
(DIR) Post #AxRNC3c4sFmlS6jtrM by kel@mastodon.online
2025-08-22T21:33:42Z
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@futurebird In the UK our giovernment surely knows this, and the best they got is:"Look at the immigrants in the expensive hotels, if it wasn't for them we would be able to make everyones lives better and deal with problems, it's all their fault!"When it's our government who refuse to process the people and them who chose the hotel, and them who are not doing their job properly --And the most hilariously unfunny thing is, supposedly intelligent people are falling for this simple ruse!
(DIR) Post #AxRNIY0mlYPXT9OJBQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:34:56Z
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I think we can do this. I'm not scared of climate change. I'm scared for biodiversity and I'm scared of the short-sighted frightened men in power and how their fear could lead to catastrophic suffering. But humans are gonna thrive if we can get them out of the way and simply focus on the problem.
(DIR) Post #AxRNSQbTAHOVO9GFKS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:36:43Z
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They don't even want people to realize that the problem is real. That's not leadership.
(DIR) Post #AxRPO62FtU3oLdqtay by redti@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T21:57:59Z
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@futurebird Two questions: who are they (the men (sexism?) with short sight) ? and are we?
(DIR) Post #AxRPVMDq6si0ZsjV7w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T21:59:39Z
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@redti Very wealthy people who are politically active. Musk for example.
(DIR) Post #AxRPZ3LCFhf5B0w6t6 by Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot
2025-08-22T22:00:17Z
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@futurebird I’ve heard of climate change being referred to as a threat multiplier, which makes sense, whatever the issue, climate impacts will make it worse.
(DIR) Post #AxRQDaQke4HlNxrWwC by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2025-08-22T22:07:35Z
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@futurebird When I apply Occam's razor, I think it is much worse than this: they have concluded that the only way they think they can survive and minimise the impact of what's to come is by letting billions of us get wiped out before the worst impacts can affect them. And I do mean billions, not millions.
(DIR) Post #AxRQp1MPU0uVccgKuG by Pollinators@epicure.social
2025-08-22T22:14:21Z
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@futurebird Thank you for wrestling with climate change in an open discussion.
(DIR) Post #AxRRRorPtJio9EgYdM by pr_ret_lutz@jasette.facil.services
2025-08-22T22:21:17Z
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@futurebird I posit there is a cottage industry of security specialists, engineers and architects that developed the last 2 decades around selling the idea to the hyper-rich (the top 0.1%) that their fortune will save them and their family... They happily bought this lie and now believe that overpopulation (specially in the global south) is THE problem. They know hundreds of millions of people will die and for them it's a good thing. I call this posture #ClimatePurge
(DIR) Post #AxRRZ9df2M4UcKkUrY by grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange
2025-08-22T22:22:42Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AxRRZrHWm0VjyQjRTM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T22:22:49Z
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@pr_ret_lutz 100s of millions of people can do all kinds of things. I would not want alienate 100s of millions of people. Have you met people?
(DIR) Post #AxRRfCE6KRRcNefsaO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T22:23:51Z
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@grumpasaurus Why are you posting a photo of Peter Thiel?
(DIR) Post #AxRThJwQoboknOYBjU by tk@f.kawa-kun.com
2025-08-22T22:45:05Z
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They're also doing this so they can hide from the revolutions that will likely result from all of this. >:(
(DIR) Post #AxRThLB0Dv4EcsNL5E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T22:46:35Z
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@tk @alienghic Underestimating the effectiveness of crowbars.
(DIR) Post #AxRUaO4d9YunXSdwUi by JeffC1956@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T22:56:33Z
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@futurebird Some would say that we are a failed species. The ramifications of our technologies and pollution now have impact over a few thousand years. But we don't plan that far in the distance, at least not most of us. Those that prefer the status quo can be aggressive towards those that are thinking long-term, and have accumulated enough power and surveillance to prevent it.
(DIR) Post #AxRUbLkrGCkYdVr00O by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-08-22T22:56:40Z
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@futurebird I am reasonably sure anywhere from 20-30% of the American public will jump straight from “it’s not real” to “Jewish space lasers to turn children gay misfired and that’s why it’s so hot now” without stopping at the “we were tricked” station.
(DIR) Post #AxRV50KBVB7CrKWAFM by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-08-22T23:01:29Z
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@alienghic @futurebird Disaster preppers are unaware of just how miserable it would be to be stuck in a bunker with nobody but them.
(DIR) Post #AxRV51WH3iNcZ7BKjI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T23:02:03Z
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@michael_w_busch Also unaware of how much the world would enjoy them being in there.
(DIR) Post #AxRVQi9PkgGmrhpZKa by nursesawa@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T23:06:01Z
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@futurebird Um. Everyone knows it's because Mindhunter was canceled.
(DIR) Post #AxRWUuXPjrzaOacgW8 by BackFour@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-22T23:17:59Z
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@futurebird Haven't visited the UK for a few years, the influx of immigrants was stressing many Brits for a while. In the US, would you believe Obama deported many "illegals" than Epstein's boating partner. Obama used the laws in place, not masked thugs pardoned for trying to hang the VP Pence. The elite, sadly LOVE Epstein's boating partner. It floored me when longtime friends, the family of one of Americas largest rent to own Companies were all in. They hate me now. Thanks. Keep your ICEBLOCK available if in the US to inform our friends who are only here to raise their families legally. Peace,
(DIR) Post #AxRWXOom85Nqt1vixU by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T23:18:28Z
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@futurebird strongly agreed. I believe the #1 task for climate mitigation is “make sure fascists aren’t in power when the refugee population is reaching 10-100x current levels”. Which feels ridiculous since it isn’t directly climate related at all, but I think the alternative is almost too horrific to imagine.I suspect one good path to achieving that is solving other problems: e.g. fix the housing crisis -> greatly reduced anger for fascists to exploit *and* better prepped for new neighbors.
(DIR) Post #AxRZJn3XW1ofrt2Qq0 by libramoon@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T23:49:34Z
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@futurebird https://windsongmyths.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/mutable-earth/
(DIR) Post #AxRdnuy73rYgud7aRk by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-08-23T00:39:50Z
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@futurebird I must admit, I feel defeated. Timeframe: From 1958 to 2025 is 67 years.Total estimated extinctions: 150 species/day×365 days/year×67 years≈3,668,250 species
(DIR) Post #AxRem67KjupSrf88JM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-23T00:50:45Z
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@raven667 @secretsloth Trump knows it's real, or is listening to people who do. That is why he wants Canada and Greenland.
(DIR) Post #AxRfGBluHUQz5ZSMym by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-08-23T00:07:21Z
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@alienghic @futurebird My thought reading that article was that "safe haven farms" are also not actual prepardness for disasters.Where does he imagine he would be getting fertilizer from?How does he imagine he would survive a hurricane running over them?Who is running the hospital that does not exist on them?And so on.Forcing him to confront that might have made him realize "preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one" actually means.
(DIR) Post #AxRfGDKgTfqZvijepE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-23T00:56:06Z
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@michael_w_busch @alienghic There is not wonderful modern way of life with microwave food and movies on demand without millions and millions of people. You can last ten years, but not twenty. Your kids will live like subsistence farmers. If we want to keeps this? We have to keep it all.
(DIR) Post #AxRfXkAfdciIhRPVdA by PrinceOfDenmark@mas.to
2025-08-23T00:59:18Z
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@futurebird Oh. Right. Greenland makes more sense from this perspective.
(DIR) Post #AxRhkTDcB6xBnMz3ce by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-08-23T01:24:03Z
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@futurebird @alienghic I have on occasion tried to work out the material conditions different sized groups of people would be able to sustain in different conditions.Sometimes some tens of thousands of people might not do too badly.But that is "chocolate is a once a year luxury".
(DIR) Post #AxRiPIsDXuJ9aERing by santiago_v@mastodon.uy
2025-08-23T01:31:22Z
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@futurebird climate change and peak oil, i would add. They know resources are gonna be scarce in the next decades
(DIR) Post #AxRkmdStLwuI11qz56 by TinJar@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T01:58:03Z
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@futurebird I try to explore mass #migration scenarios via fiction. In case anyone is interested, check it out: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #bookstodon #climatechange #solarpunk
(DIR) Post #AxRm5RchhjbskGyYwC by nihongomaamaa@mastodon.ie
2025-08-23T02:12:39Z
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@futurebird I do this. I try to explain the craziness of the world with a single theory. But I only do this because that theory is easy to understand and demonstrate.However, I only use this reductive method as an intro to:* more refined models theories that support my views* other reductive theories and why they are demonstrably wrong#StreetEpistemology #Wavelets
(DIR) Post #AxRmFJ1eWbc0yaLc9Y by nihongomaamaa@mastodon.ie
2025-08-23T02:14:27Z
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@futurebird also, just a bit of snark, imagine a person who thinks that climate collapse is inevitable... ask them where they're gonna get to water to fill the moat in their bunker-mentality scenario...
(DIR) Post #AxRmRHXBtZitpGoHKK by nihongomaamaa@mastodon.ie
2025-08-23T02:16:37Z
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@futurebird"The Event"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWSN5kaQ1oM
(DIR) Post #AxRqFpAxOKDcVLCbp2 by AlgoCompSynth@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T02:59:21Z
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@futurebird Of course wealthy people know climate change is real! It's visible in the rates people pay for insurance against floods and wildfires, assuming you can even get that insurance.
(DIR) Post #AxS18jd6iBi0lyBw6S by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
2025-08-23T05:01:19Z
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@futurebird I live in Sydney, Australia and we've only had three days without torrential rain this month. It's flooded the rivers, created hundreds of potholes, and affected the economy, the road-accident mortality rate, and I would say the mood of five million people.It's not supposed to be like this. I think a lot of people are thinking about a future where the weather is like this all the time.
(DIR) Post #AxS1d2BmH1Jh1Kr8sK by rood@aus.social
2025-08-23T05:06:46Z
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@futurebird we haven't evolved like birds. Birds have been tempered on the high road. They can't take more than they can carry aloft. It taught them to live a life, and to live it well. The shear love of life they embrace is breathtaking. We're newbies and we suck. Gave it my best shot!
(DIR) Post #AxS3xj5EhbUlktn5fM by RebelGeek99@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T05:32:57Z
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@futurebird @enobacon there's so many more of us than there are of them .
(DIR) Post #AxSCbrYzOPvBGvMCuW by catavz@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T07:09:51Z
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@futurebird From Andor:“The difference between what is said & what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil." - Mon Mothma
(DIR) Post #AxSUNcZC9T69shoPOi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-23T10:29:00Z
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@tuban_muzuru Part of me has become detached to deal with it. Because in the long line of this planet's history other destructive species have existed, thrived and died. Biodiversity ebbs, flows. So really we are destroying all of this for ourselves. We will never get to see or know what we have destroyed. Are we exceptional enough to realize and minimize further loss? Or are we just another creature that will spam the fossil record with our numerous bones?
(DIR) Post #AxSVj3HK8JVclIEgEa by mhagdorn@toot.berlin
2025-08-23T10:44:01Z
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@futurebird @tuban_muzuru that's exactly how I see. I totally agree with your thread. I would add to your assessment that climate change is already driving some of the conflicts directly.
(DIR) Post #AxShSa6e1fkz6P9ZVg by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T12:55:32Z
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@futurebird Remember:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKT1r-8viHk
(DIR) Post #AxShYg74bahVTCGFeq by pr_ret_lutz@jasette.facil.services
2025-08-23T12:56:38Z
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@futurebird They'll silently die of diseases, like the two millions now silently dying of hunger.
(DIR) Post #AxSs0ciznOXCbwxm2S by globcoco@mamot.fr
2025-08-23T14:53:42Z
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@futurebird @tuban_muzuru The problem is within our species, there are both people who are very much aware of that, like yourself, and others who are totally oblivious. And everything in between.
(DIR) Post #AxTHhnN0adVmvvMSx6 by craignicol@glasgow.social
2025-08-23T19:41:32Z
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@futurebird the single theory people know exactly what they're doing. It's called depluralisation, turning all your complex problems into one single manageable hatred "blame the immigrants, blame women..."It's exactly how those in power try to distract those without powerhttps://www.eip.org/eip-explainer-understanding-radicalisation/
(DIR) Post #AxTHmJQvK10xX9LXvc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-23T19:42:31Z
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@craignicol something isn't working with that link?
(DIR) Post #AxTHxjqbSGEkdoo3FY by craignicol@glasgow.social
2025-08-23T19:44:32Z
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@futurebird I think it's a temporary glitch. It seems to work 2 out of 3 times I try it. But I'm in the UK and we have a government that wants to protect our children from the internet, so certain websites have issues.
(DIR) Post #AynUjCizzKtHs2qOLA by amerika@annihilation.social
2025-10-02T11:33:54.805825Z
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@futurebird The Ecocide is the real problem."Climate change" was the feel-good distraction.
(DIR) Post #AynUnE118EFt22BnUm by amerika@annihilation.social
2025-10-02T11:34:28.963632Z
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@futurebird Climate change? Nonsense.The obvious: overpopulation.