2040-2050
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The collapse is inevitable according to author PETER WATTS on May 31, 2024.
In this corner, the biosphere. We’ve spent a solid year higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius; we’re wiping out species at a rate of somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 annually; insect populations are crashing; and we’re 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’re 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.”
Any way you look at it, a big change in how we live is about to go down. Down turn in human population. Tough times are ahead. The signs are flashing everywhere. The cliff edge approaches. Don’t let the mass of last minute hysteria overtake you when the end if inevitable to everyone. Prepare now. Look for places away from the mass. Remote. Abundant. Unspoiled. Stockpile food, medicine, weapons, ammo. All of these are commodities which will only become more uncommon, more valuable, more needed. Train yourself, your family, especially your children. Make them hard, now. Neflix and beauty creams are going to go extinct along with access to food, water, and security. Train your children to hunt, fish, trap, heal, garden, to fight. Train them physically. Make them fit now, fit for the rest of their lives.
I feel like we are all aboard an over-priced scenic tour to our own collective doom. No one is asking questions about why we are speeding up, or what awaits us when we arrive, even where that is! Normalcy bias en masse. The thought-trick of our mind, to make us believe that everything will stay the same, be like now, be ok…while simultaneously ignoring all of the signs flashing FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
The year 2040 is only 15.5 years from now. How will you use that time?
Northern Survivalist