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I was holding out on joining the wave of doomerism that pervades everyone's mindset so thoroughly nowadays, but I'm starting to be won over. Between economic things like this and the apparent infeasibility of carbon capture (meaning a likely 3+ degree C increase in global temperature (and the resulting catastrophic effects that not even activists talk about because the scenario is too bleak to imagine)), I am starting to join the doomer mindshare.

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reality isn't doomerism, really just is.... reality. Those who call it doomerism live near a river called denial, apparently it's a pretty popular place these days.

They either don't want to think about it, or they think a man is going to descend from the heavens and save them, I wouldn't count on that happening.

There's room for hope we can science our way out or at least ai might be able to find solutions we can't think of, assuming it doesn't kill us first.

Maybe. I think we're going to buy time with geoengineering, but it won't solve everything or actually fix any core issues.

> Those who call it doomerism live near a river called denial, apparently it's a pretty popular place these days.

Well down by denial river, anyone who wants housing bad enough has access to it. The working class isn't being bled dry. There are no socioeconomic problems, and you have your house and comfortable life because you worked for it, just like everyone else is able to.

No wonder it's such a popular place to live.

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