Doomism Is Depressing
But hopeism is killing me !
Since Prof. Jem Bendell’s paper on Deep Adaptation in 2018 following the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate accord, “collapesology” and its cousin “doomism” have achieved mainstream notoriety. Everyday seems to bring out another depressing headline about the climate catastrophe the planet is faced with.
So, of course, loath to send their captive audiences screaming in terror, the spokespeople of the our present system are forced by their employers to end every story with a line of hope, no matter how trite. Some seem innocuous due to a lack of understanding of the scope of the problem and some are downright outrageous, such as suggesting that the climate catastrophe will create “new tourism opportunities” of presently frozen landscapes!
It is not doomism when the merchants of destruction are engineering your doom and it is not hope when all you have is faith that the capitalists will come up with some yet-to-be implemented technology you can hopefully afford to save yourself… from them.
The people who have created the problem are now screaming that it will cost trillions upon trillions of dollars to even begin to solve this problem. The fact that this still has not woken the citizenry up to the scale of the calamity the oligarchs have created is an amazing achievement of…
