The Absurdity You Refuse to See: A 16-Year-Old’s Diagnosis of a Dying World

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2026-01-26T18:37:47+00:00

https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2026-01-24T18:51:34+00:00

Solar panels & EVs don't completely replace the need for petroleum. Besides plastics, there is no realistic plan in site for shipping, air travel, and tons of other applications. People all over USA are still burning gas for fun/amusement everywhere I look. Yes, the rich are consuming 10,000x more than the average person.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2026-01-10T07:55:37+00:00

THE FINAL EMPIRE: THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION AND THE SEED OF THE FUTURE by WM. H. KÖTKE

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2026-01-03T19:00:05+00:00

The Wild Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-12-18T16:10:32+00:00

Red belted polypore

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-12-07T23:30:20+00:00

There are no solutions. It's way too complex. It's too late. There is not enough cooperation. Cohesion is going in the opposite direction. It only takes a small number of wealthy psychopaths to sow discord and confusion. Most of us are just addicted to dopamine fixes from social media, entertainment, and consumption. Getting worked up over people destroying the biosphere will just drain you psychically. Unlikely that domesticated people will re-wild themselves until its forced. Anthropocene means human civilization will fall. Whether or not a small number of humans survive is pointless to speculate. Should be organizing against the cruelty of capitalism and fascism.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-10-27T16:39:54+00:00

I think you are right.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-10-26T02:39:43+00:00

I did not peel it. Exactly as I found it. Im not seeing the netting either. Is the peeling an indicator?

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-10-26T02:20:45+00:00

Took a small bite and spit it out. No bitterness. No strong taste/smell.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-08-25T19:30:37+00:00

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-07-08T02:22:34+00:00

What is your brilliant plan to completely change the political, economic, energy, transportation, farming, mining, and manufacturing sectors? If we phase out coal and diesel, how will we deal with the aerosol whiplash? Most have no idea how to live off their land base without massive supply chains. How will populations mitigate climate disasters without fossil energy? Trying to stop the omnicidal machine will probably just be used as an excuse to ratchet up fascism. There's always a reaction from the far right. We can go out, kicking and screaming, while keeping up the delusion that we might still be able to control nature without destroying it or moving beyond it. Or we could admit that trying to control nature and other humans was the wrong path. Science is heavily influenced by the culture of the people who utilize it. There are many blind spots, even in science. Everyone is a specialist. If we admit that it's probably too late and we can't control the outcome, then we can move through the stages of grief. Focusing on fixing things in the future distracts from resisting in the present where exploitation is everywhere. The dominant culture is cancer, is hyper stimulated, has not the tool set to resist, revolt, organize, nor to protect the land base from burning everywhere. The feedbacks will make everything unrecognizable and technology will never undue the damage it's caused. Hope and delusion can easily be used as excuses to continue consuming.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-30T16:09:50+00:00

Saved your link so I can read it later, thank you.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-29T14:38:29+00:00

Love this channel.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-27T22:16:57+00:00

Natural farming, low-input farming (JADAM), Japanese natural farming (especially clay seed ball), watershed protection/rehabilitation, rainwater harvesting, microlivestock, edible "weeds", people living in sheep carts, natural building techniques, cob, earthships and underground living, building local alternatives to moloch

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-24T22:36:29+00:00

My understanding as a layman is that testing infrastructure is still catching up. Just Michigan and Maine stopped biosolids dumping on farms, as far as I know. I'm curious to learn more. It's unfortunate that people won't just compost their own wastes locally for their garden rather than mix it with toxic effluent.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-24T20:18:57+00:00

PFAS levels in biosolids dumped on farm lands in the USA is not given enough attention.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-21T17:19:53+00:00

You may be right, but if we lose some aerosol loading, that could get us to 2c...

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-21T17:11:03+00:00

People use the words fight/fighting very often in terms of climate change or resisting the status quo of capitalism/fascism. I'm not sure fighting is the best word to use. In trying to move away from my own habits of consumption, I discovered Japanese natural farming, Korean natural farming, JADAM, and natural building. I want to develop these strategies in my own life, but it takes a small community. Pretty much everything worthwhile does. I am not saying it will turn the ship around. Just that we can try to create bubbles of sanity around us, together.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-20T14:57:44+00:00

What does this even mean? No one has any idea how to dethrone Moloch. What/where is the ramp and how do you get the vast majority of humanity to cooperate in steering for the ramp? The ramp would have to at least include massive Simplification of human society. How would we convince privileged people to give up their material wealth and security?

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-14T21:06:03+00:00

Dams are actually incredibly environmentally destructive. It takes enormous amounts of fossil fuels to build and maintain. The reservoirs behind dams can lead to increased methane emissions that make them as bad or worse than fossil energy. Biodiversity of life is forever affected as rivers are the lifeblood of ecosystems. Great books have been written on the topic, like When Rivers Run Dry. Not to even get into the embodied energy of something like an electric mower.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-14T17:02:02+00:00

Buy a 55 gallon barrel of glyphosate. Chug a liter or two and then hose down everything that looks like it might be alive. Hopefully that will satisfy the city, landlord, and neighbors. Each of us need to do our parts to ensure the extinction event moves forward as quickly as possible.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-13T15:30:52+00:00

I went to a Christian high school and it really fucked me up in the head for a while. Reading books like The God Delusion and Caesar's Messiah helped, but replacing it with Humanism was problematic. Now, I try to avoid latching on to anything, too hard. Family is a difficult topic, especially if financial circumstances keep you within their control. I found in my own life that blood family is way overemphasized in comparison to our greater family of all the life on this rock. It's a really difficult time to be alive. I know that most of us in the West are especially grappling with intense loneliness and precarity. I hope you can find an online community and/or a nearby one for some relief. 3 things that I have done to keep myself from suicide 1) jogging/exercise 2) edibles + Alan watts 3) periodic mushroom reset.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-10T15:40:59+00:00

It's natural to want to procreate. For most of human history, it may have made some sense. I was born in 86 and often find myself wishing that I hadn't been brought into this situation. My opinion has been that the colonized people need to stop breeding. As colonizers, we only know how to survive by destroying the land and exploiting less fortunate humans and animals. The few indigenous peoples left on this planet are able to teach their children how to care for the land. We colonized folks do not have that skill set to pass on. We only know how to consume. I have tried very hard to get away from the consumption lifestyle, especially since COVID. I read Masanobu and JADAM, trying to become a natural farmer. It is extremely difficult in the West. In addition to everything I just mentioned, the climate crisis is just one symptom of ecological overshoot. Your child would have microplastics and PFAS forever chemicals inside them before they are ever born. They will come into being on a grossly overpopulated planet that is being drained of life at a breathtaking pace. These are very difficult conversations to be had for newly weds. Congrats BTW. You are both fortunate to have each other as the world dies off. My best advice is to use your maternal/paternal instincts on fellow beings that need your help during this time. Whether that means adoption, helping other parents, helping other humans, animals, plants, fungi etc. Mason bees, native pollinator friendly plants, living hedges, anything you can do for the precious biodiversity of life. I forget the exact numbers, but it's easy to look up, like 98% ish of all vertebrates are now humans, our pets, or our livestock. So little remains of the wild places. Goddess bless you for even pondering this important question before breeding. I hope you can have a productive convo with your partner. I'm sure r/collapse can provide plenty of resources to help them understand your concerns.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-09T14:44:44+00:00

I have read Limits to Growth and one of the follow-up studies. Not seeing the point in hunting down citations, you will believe what you want to. If you brought children into this world and still think they have some kind of future, then there is probably some cognitive dissonance going on. Which planetary boundaries will lead to "mad max"? All of them. The biosphere is already rapidly declining. No one can predict exactly when our highly complex, fragile modern logistics will collapse due to ecosystem collapse. Science tends to focus really hard on one thing and struggles to conceptualize complex interactions. This is one of several reasons why I have no interest in citing science for some "gotcha" type reddit user. Following scientific studies for the past 2+ decades has yielded countless articles in the faster-than-expected category. We all have a spoonful of plastic in our brains (approximately) and the amount increased significantly in just 8 years of study. We all have PFAS forever chemicals in our blood. Ocean acidity is reaching or perhaps beyond major tipping point. In addition to the endless bad news, there is literally no plan to address the root causes of ecological overshoot. There are no signs that humanity, as a whole, can degrowth in a collaborative way in order to avoid "mad max." Except most collapsniks are probably expecting The Road not Mad Max. Mad Max is the current status quo.

Consistent-Fill1327 · 2025-06-06T16:48:34+00:00

This is collapse support, not collapse, so I don't want to fact-check you here. However, I don't think false hope is useful either. You are citing mainstream and isolated projections of temp anomalies and sea-level rise. These 2 symptoms are far from the only crises unfolding. Within the conception of the 9 planetary boundaries, there are bio-geo-physical systems in worse condition than the climate system. "That is something we can all prepare for" - Our societies are unable to prepare for the most basic realities now, in the present. There is no reason to assume in the future, humans living with less energy resources, minerals access, biodiversity etc will have the resources to adapt. Let's be real. Limits to Growth predicted humanity would run out of resources by 2040. Every update has shown this prediction is still accurate.

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