Learn To Accept Impermanence, The Death Of Everything.

Some doomers keep yelling on the internet that the end is nigh and there is no hope. I was one of them. I now realize they haven't truly accepted the end of humanity. Otherwise they would just make the best of the time left, instead of wasting it shouting and complaining about the inevitable.

Thich Nhat Hanh says nothing really dies. It just transforms into something different. It's never gone. I disagree, and I think he is just appeasing people. Something is truly lost when a being dies. Even if their molecules keep circulating through the biosphere. Even if information is never lost. They are dead forever.

James Hansen, the godfather of climate change science, published a paper predicting future global temperature rise using paleontology (historical data like fossil plants) instead of the incomplete computer simulations. He predicted that if we stop emitting green house gasses now, and use aerosols to limit warming (cloud seeding), we are headed for a new equilibrium global temperature of 8°C warming above pre-industrial baseline. That would mean the end of agriculture as we know it.

Depending on which paper, the current warming is happening tens to hundreds of times faster than the global warming event that caused the End Permian mass extinction that killed 96% of life. That was right before the age of dinosaurs.

Between 1970 and 2020, humans eradicated 73% of wildlife, as an average per vertibrate species. The planet is dying faster than at any time in history. It took at least 40 000 years for the dinosaurs to perish (except for birds), in comparison. That used to be the fastest mass extinction, with 75% of life killed. We did it in 50 years.

We also have peak fuel and peak fertilizer and peak soil in the pipeline. A paper I saw predicted a 7% drop in atmospheric oxygen by 2100. The oceans are dying. We are fucked.

Symptoms of grief include: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These come and go in no particular order. I practice accepting impermanence. Greta hasn't accepted it, yelling at windmills, writing manuals of how we are going to prevent what already happened. It's like trying to stop the earth from spinning with willpower.

I am grateful that I get to be alive at this time. I'm on the peak, I see the past and the future of life on earth, of humanity. It's a privilege. All this knowledge and insight at my fingertips.

My friend pressured me to read the Hermann Hesse book "Siddhartha". It's a book full of wisdom. One of the lessons is: you have no control over this thing. I really recommend it. Thank you, friend.

Live in the present moment. Make the best of our short time being alive. Buy the ticket, take the ride, and realize: it's just a ride. Stop worrying, and learn to love the sixth mass extinction.


peace ✌️ 💜 

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