Scary. From the news I see, there are seemingly many more wildfires, hurricanes, and now heatwaves and an El Niño that are breaking their records by significantly more than the 0.1 C that the actual climate has changed in the past 10 years. It feels possibly apocalyptic to project this exponential trend forward. From the perspective of someone just reading the media I'm unable to be sure whether this is a red car effect, the media just knowing this content works, or whether this is simply the state of things. Are there any experts that might shed some light?
The experts have been consistently predicting that the destabilization of the climate can lead to civilization-ending events and that we'd be clearly in that territory by the end of the century.
But that's just the climate system, not accounting for things like the Hormuz closure or whatever political shenanigans might be dismantling the global commerce safety net that was part of the neoliberal experiment.
So it seems that we're right on schedule for the ever increasing baseline catastrophies from climate change. As usual the scientists were right.
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Scary. From the news I see, there are seemingly many more wildfires, hurricanes, and now heatwaves and an El Niño that are breaking their records by significantly more than the 0.1 C that the actual climate has changed in the past 10 years. It feels possibly apocalyptic to project this exponential trend forward. From the perspective of someone just reading the media I'm unable to be sure whether this is a red car effect, the media just knowing this content works, or whether this is simply the state of things. Are there any experts that might shed some light?
The experts have been consistently predicting that the destabilization of the climate can lead to civilization-ending events and that we'd be clearly in that territory by the end of the century.
But that's just the climate system, not accounting for things like the Hormuz closure or whatever political shenanigans might be dismantling the global commerce safety net that was part of the neoliberal experiment.
So it seems that we're right on schedule for the ever increasing baseline catastrophies from climate change. As usual the scientists were right.
It's called 'jackpot' in cyberpunk.
It seems the boomers are so full of it that they actually want to be the last generation.
I know that Jackpot is naming that William Gibson created in his Peripherial books. Are there other common references, I'm curious?
I think it also appeared somewhere in the Cyberpunk ttrpg lore but not sure, I've been using it because of the expressiveness.