Life in the 2060s - 2070s

Humanity is well on the way to extinction by the 2060s. The band of uninhabitability at the equator continues to expand inexorably, driving surviving refugees North and South - primarily North. Western countries, in particular the United States, are well along in the process of losing basic infrastructure; electricity, clean water, and internet access are only intermittently available at best for all but the areas designated by the US military as "smart cities".

https://mwi.usma.edu/feral-cities-pandemics-military/

The vast majority of the United States is designated "feral" territory. The military's prime internal mission is to keep the population of feral areas helpless and divided though information control (propaganda), resource control, and military action. Large scale campaigns of extermination of feral population are probably initiated at this time, but are not yet implemented on a wide scale for another decade.

The primary external mission of the US military is to maintain the southern border from millions of climate change refugees, or alternatively to exterminate as many refugees as possible.

The elite continue to withdraw into highly secured areas, defended by the military as well as by private military contractors. Some of the elite retire to luxury underground bunkers, primarily in New Zealand. I lack sufficient information to speculate on the response of New Zealanders to this prospect.

Due to the lack of infrastructure as well as environmental collapse, new pandemics continue to rage through the feral population and the global South. Old diseases return with a vengeance, since crumbling infrastructure has made basic sanitation impossible for most of the world's population. Health care is, of course, unavailable in most cases.

Combined with increasingly violent weather on a scale currently unimaginable, deaths in the billions occur. Needless to say, billions of diseased and rotting bodies make ever-larger areas of the planet uninhabitable due to disease.

Some of the elite may or may not have attempted to escape to orbital habitats or colonies on the Moon or Mars. These attempts are not successful. Even if colonies are successfully established, they lack sufficient biodiversity and technological skill to survive more than a few decades at most. The same issue applies to underground bunkers; the elite believe that they are technologically capable of self-preservation and do not require a living planet to survive, but they are incorrect. They end up devouring each other in the dark, underground.

The human race becomes extinct within 100 to 200 years from this point.

The End

 The world itself will end when the sun goes nova. But it will effectively end when humanity guess extinct.

We pass the point of no return on climate change in less than seven years. After that, the collapse of human civilization and eventual human extinction will be inevitable. The link below includes references that back up the science on that point.

https://climateclock.world/

The US military projects that basic infrastructure - electric and water service - will be failing within twenty years. The food and medicine chains will break, making supplies problematic at best. The military's primary task at that point will be quelling revolutionary activity by the by-then-far-vaster numbers of poor and desperate people. Controlling the information available to the people and propagandizing them into hate and fear of other groups (based on race, age, and politics) will be a critical part of that task.

As civilization continues to collapse, many of the elite will withdraw and retire to their luxury underground bunkers where most of them will probably die out within five years; without servants of slaves, they won't be able to survive.

Some of the elite may set up armed compounds guarded by squadrons of elite thugs. They're likely to live longer than the underground elites, but they'll still end up dying out in the extinction of humanity. These people need slaves to survive. Without them, they'll die.

The general human condition will get worse in the next hundred years. More and more of the Earth will become uninhabitable over that time, from the equator towards the poles. Mass migrations will take place, with huge wars fought over habitable land and resources such as water and food. Billions will die.

As the medical supply chain fails, plague and new diseases will spread uncontrollably. The endless mounds of rotting human and animal dead will be a major driver of infection and death. The Earth will become a charnel house.

No one will record when the last human dies. It could happen in a couple of centuries, or in five or six hundred years. But it will happen.

Looking at reality

What amazes me is that both Democrats and Republicans are united in ignoring the climate cliff that we're headed for. Oh, the Democrats pretend to "listen to the science", but Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he will not ban fracking - and has already shown that the fossil fuel industry will be heavily represented in his administration, while progressives and environmentalists will be completely frozen out.

 

Here's the thing. Climate change will pass the point of no return by the end of 2027 - and that's if we're lucky. So far every time new data has come in, the amount of time we have left has gotten shorter. And once we pass that point of no return, human civilization is doomed. The oligarchs retire to their luxury underground bunkers in New Zealand, and end up eating each other within 5 years - because let's face it, they won't survive on a dying planet without millions of slaves to support them. The rest of us will end up living briefly and dying in a post-apocalyptic world.

 

Maybe you think that's bullshit. That's your privilege, although if you have kids or grandkids they might disagree. But you owe it to them - and to all the children of the world - to take a hard look at the data. It's freely available on the Climate Clock.

 

There's no time left for political games. We have seven years at most. The only option if we want to survive is revolution. Now, that's not up to any one of us. But the elite have been creating the conditions which make revolution almost inevitable. Cops killing people with impunity. Congress serving the interests of the oligarchy exclusively. Covid-19 being completely botched while BOTH parties refuse to consider universal health care. Millions of Americans unemployed (and even more underemployed) while unemployment benefits expire. Topping things off, tens of millions of Americans will be evicted in the next several months - and again, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will do a damned thing to stop that from happening.

 

Tens of millions of desperate, starving American families in the streets. In winter. What the hell can we expect but revolution?

 

So get ready. Network with neighbors. Be ready for the mass protests and the general strikes. Stock up on essentials. Learn basic first aid, and get enough supplies to help others. Look up protest techniques and equipment. Because either the revolution is coming...or hell on earth.

Facebook Recidivism

 I'm back in Facebook jail. This is my fourth time; I'd gone for years without any trouble, but in the last few months I've been suspended four times.

What was my offense?

Criticizing Bernie Sanders for selling out the progressive movement.

Now, the funny thing is that I've used almost the exact same words to criticize him on Facebook before with no pushback whatsoever from FB. I can only speculate as to the change in FB's response. My guess is that either I have a stalker (not impossible, it has happened before) who is reporting every controversial comment I post, or else Facebook has escalated their censorship standards. It's also possible that I'm on Facebook's watchlist, of course.

In any case, it reminds me of the old Soviet censorship that we used to hear about. It seems that we need to develop a samizdat network of our own; a way to be able to communicate without having Mark Zuckerberg's clammy hands clamped over our digital mouths.

The problem, of course, is that the three major social networks (Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter) are all subject to rigorous censorship by the oligarchy. Smaller ones aren't, but that's because their user base is so small that you might as well write your post on a piece of paper and flush it down the toilet. The oligarchy is perfectly happy to have us waste our time talking to nobody; it's only when we might rile up the sheep (as they see them) that they have their sheepdogs take us down.

It's a problem.

In the meantime, I've been posting on a very small new site called Leftbook.us. It desperately needs more users, but given that Facebook has been flat-out purging leftist groups there (and some libertarian/right groups, too), Leftbook seems like a good option. It's not a place to reach the unaffiliated, but it could be a good place to meet other leftists and organize - which is something that the oligarchs have spent a LOT of money to discourage.

What I hope for from this election

What do I want from this election?

Uncertainty. I know I won't get a Green victory. The only way we’re going to have a chance to avoid extinction is with a full-blown revolution. But I don't want to see either candidate get a clean win. The closer it is, the more contentious and confused the results are, the better for us in the long run.

Because that sort of turmoil will help discredit the whole rotten system. Let the two corrupt corporatist parties squabble and fight. Let the two demented old rapist-pedophiles scream at each other on TV. Better that than a quiet return to business as usual!

Business as usual means extinction for us all.

Changes

Living with the knowledge that humanity will soon be extinct, and that everything - EVERYTHING - that anyone ever cared about, feared, dreamed, built, imagined, loved, hated or felt will be forgotten forever as if it never existed...that's the big one.

 

I imagine there will be a real need for antidepressants in seven years.

The Terror of Amy Coney Barrett

It's funny. I know that Amy Coney Barrett is supposed to panic me. But I just don't care. It's like having terminal cancer, and being told about yet another tumor. It's ALREADY terminal, so who cares?

The only way we get to survive is if we overthrow the whole system. Another tumor more or less isn't going to change that.