![]() ![]() “Recent research suggests that human societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten years due to climate stress. ![]() To recap: in the paper I did not claim that we faced inevitable near-term human extinction and did not claim that the inevitable collapse would happen by 2028. ![]() Unfortunately, other people misrepresented what I wrote. Others preferred to regard societal collapse as a possibility, as they wanted to hope for a managed transition to a new form of society. Some claimed I was not being scientific to claim an inevitable outcome, and instead language like “near certain” or “very likely” would be more appropriate. Other people chose a variety of ways to disagree. They said it helped validate what they already felt, and so enabled their emotional processing and to change their lives accordingly. ![]() Many people agreed and thanked me for expressing that conclusion publicly. When I concluded that societal collapse is inevitable, nearly 5 years ago, it may have been one of the reasons my Deep Adaptation paper attracted unusual attention. I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable… because when I was concluding that, it had already begun. ![]()
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