Collapse

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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023 (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by eleitl@lemm.ee to c/collapse@lemm.ee

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It should scare people more that so many scientists have basically started to say ‘our carbon sinks are sunk, so I don’t know what to tell you anymore.’ The majority certainly don’t hear it though.

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ocean ecosystems have collapsed as well. Snow crab harvest has been cancelled for the last 2 years. Atlantic current systems are on the brink of failure, which would have catastrophic effects for Western Europe, let alone everyone else.

Crops failing in Western agriculture. Insects have been gone for a decade at this point.

People outside collapse watchers think the end will happen all at one time, like in the movies.

We’re already in the end times. There’s enough living biomass built up to slow it down so that we only see one sign at a time. But add them all up and it’s obvious.

It’s over.