"television dreams of tomorrow aren't the ones we were meant to follow".

we are a critical point in our existence and we have a complete fucking moron for a president.

in a phrase: we are soooooooo fucked.

As climate change and habitat destruction increase, arable land continues to shrink. As we use more and more natural resources to harvest less and less (fracking, for instance), we create a system of increasing scarcity but poisoning things like vital aquifers, and using up fresh water.

We've got a bit over seven and a half billion people in the world, and many of them are living in areas that are rapidly becoming non-arable. Farming will be impossible because there will not be sufficient fresh water to irrigate. People already living at the margins will be pushed further towards already overcrowded and overstretched communities, and there will be conflict. We are going to see wars over water and arable land within 100 years.

Meanwhile we're fishing the oceans empty, causing species to go extinct at a rate rarely seen, and still growing growing growing. We're still burning fossil fuels, making plastic (and throwing it in the ocean), burning rainforests to make room for cattle. It's all accelerating, the brakes have long since given way, there's no stopping it. Permafrost in Siberia and Northern Canada is melting releasing long-held methane and other greenhouse gases, causing a potential runaway greenhouse effect. It's too late to stop it, but we've got to take our foot off of the gas pedal.

I don't expect it to happen, just wishful thinking.

Maybe sooner than we think.

Here's an article from National Geographic from 2016.

Beijing isn’t the only place experiencing subsidence, or sinking, as soil collapses into space created as groundwater is depleted. Parts of Shanghai, Mexico City, and other cities are sinking, too. Sections of California’s Central Valley have dropped by a foot, and in some localized areas, by as much as 28 feet.

... but I guess I'm an optimist at heart.

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Unfortunately this is the last thing anyone even wants to talk about or acknowledge as fact.

We, as a species, are a cross between pigs and lemmings.

And they are very well respected as Fox News contributors.

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That will never work. They should have threatened "universal happiness". Then the republicans would do something.

Go to school for a really long time and it gets you nowhere. Oh wait: I did that and it got me somewhere. Never mind.

How are you going to get 3 billion people to just stop driving? You aren't.

It is nice that we are slowly moving to cleaner systems but we are at a snails pace while mother nature has already begun her retribution.

So... BRACE FOR IMPACT!

becomes more common than not, ... except in some pockets of affluence in North America & Europe.

since it's becoming quite clear that the federal government will not be taking this seriously anytime soon as long as Republicans control everything

immigrating from places like AZ & TX, due to heat & lack of water? It's gonna get ugly on planet Earth. Man, I won the human lottery when I think of when & where I was born.