{"id":28851,"date":"2024-05-15T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=28851"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:16:16","slug":"the-science-is-settled-the-world-will-end-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/the-science-is-settled-the-world-will-end-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science is Settled; the World Will End by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article<\/a> by two doofuses named Peter Watts and Daniel Brooks.\u00a0 Watts is a science fiction writer and I think Brooks is a biologist in academia.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spent a solid year higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius; we\u2019re wiping out species at a rate of somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 annually; insect populations are crashing; and we\u2019re losing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, no matter what we do at this point. Alaskapox has just claimed its first human victim, and there are over 15,000 zoonoses expected to pop up their heads and take a bite out of our asses by the end of the century. And we\u2019re expecting the exhaustion of all arable land around 2050, which is actually kind of moot because studies from institutions as variable as MIT and the University of Melbourne suggest that global civilizational collapse is going to happen starting around 2040 or 2050.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And this is the optimist of the pair.\u00a0 The other guy is cheering on the collapse because he wants to clear the path for the few deserving humans to restart human life solidly in the pre-industrial era.\u00a0 He kind of equates his role in all this as something like Hari Seldon in Isaac Asimov\u2019s \u201cFoundation\u201d stories.\u00a0 Gee, I wonder if I can try out for the part of the Mule?<\/p>\n

Apparently civilizational collapse is settled science.<\/p>\n

Who knew?<\/em><\/p>\n

You know, if I were a young person being fed this line from kindergarten to grad school I might be as crazy as the Zoomers appear to be.<\/p>\n

So, the world is coming to an end and even the climate warriors say it can\u2019t be fixed.\u00a0 Okay, then maybe they\u2019ll just shut up now and let us live out our lives while the world burns.\u00a0 But of course, as every supposed end of the world date passes without, you know, the world ending, they just screech louder and become even more annoying.\u00a0 Now the dimwits are gluing their bodies to roadways and destroying works of art.<\/p>\n

So far normal people have reacted by dragging these human traffic cones off the road, sometimes by their feet and comically, sometimes by their hair<\/a>.\u00a0 But you wonder when the first of these activists will become a road pizza<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve watched a lot of these road block videos and I\u2019m waiting for the motorists to start bringing zip ties and pepper spray to these events and tie them to a light pole and mace these clowns good.\u00a0 I think they richly deserve it.<\/p>\n

For their civil disobedience, if I were the judge I\u2019d sentence them to one year without electric power and all the things associated with modern life; clean water, refrigerated food and hygiene.\u00a0 I\u2019d let them rot in a hovel and subsist on putrid food washed down with water from the nearest rain puddle.<\/p>\n

Look, the world isn\u2019t going to end in 2040 or 2050, just as it didn\u2019t end in 2024 as predicted twenty years before that.\u00a0 We should be so lucky to see this clown show end!\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t a world that wants Joe Biden to be its leader collapse?\u00a0 Collapse would be the reasonable response to such a wholly stupid system.\u00a0 But it won\u2019t end.\u00a0 We all need the exercise too much to just roll over and die.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an even chance that I will still be around in 2050.\u00a0 And if I do, I may go hobbling around looking for Watts and Brooks and if they\u2019re still alive I might just punch them both in the nose and tell them to apologize to the world for being so stupid.<\/p>\n

THE END IS NIGH, REPENT!!!!!!\u00a0 But can you give me a lift to the highway blockade?\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty far by bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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