Ask Lemmy

I live in the U.S., and with how fucked the country is with fascists and fascist bootlickers, I don't know where my future lies.

I can't really afford to move to another country, and I can't see myself settling down in this fucked up place.

So I'm just stuck in limbo, and it feels like my future is being held hostage.

And climate change is just the icing on the cake. Shit loads of people are going to die, quality of life is going to significantly drop. Climate immigration is going to explode and provide even more political power to fascists.

Yep.

At this point I'm 90% sure that we are in a regression similar to the dark ages after the fall of Rome, or the collapse of the Bronze Age.

During our lifetime quality of life will keep going down, and who knows how low we will fall.

To be honest I don't even think climate change would have a chance of getting us. I think society will collapse before the average temperature rises one degree. I'm looking forward total dissapear of basic commodities in one or two decades top. For instance, my country has universal healthcare. I think in 10 years it would be completely unusable to the point of being equal to not have universal healthcare at all.

Benn Jordan just released a video talking about a similar feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA

My answer has nothing to do with current events: what scares me the most about the future is the inevitable death of my parents. I am scared of never being able to talk to them ever again.

I'm pretty sure we're at the twilight of human civilization, and maybe all biological life, or at least most complex biological life.

Mostly afraid of the climate

It does seem like a daily assault on our well being, doesn't it? But there is something that helps with this - read history broadly. It helps give you a deeper understanding of current events that lessens the impact of the current moment. And consider the quote "this too shall pass". It's attributed to Sufi poets about impermanence. If times are bad it gives you hope that those times will one day, eventually but certainly, be gone. If times are good it makes you relish the moment deeply and do what you can to make it last.

Climate change. Shit is going to get super real in the next 20 years. Like half the planet starving real.

at this point i just don't care. shit will get better and hopefully we'll be there to see it happen

Every period of history has felt like the world was heading for certain disaster. The human race is shockingly resilient and has survived much more than we deserve to

We're fucked, I just hope I can get with the girl I like and not ride the storm alone. Trying to get a meaningful job that help people

You're not wrong but maybe not completely right. Someone has thought the world was about to end since at least the beginning of recorded history. Famously the first Pope Saint Peter was strongly convinced the rapture was within his lifetime, 1960 years later, the world is still spinning.

at this point i'm beyond being afraid. i just plain dont care anymore, maybe we even deserve what is coming for letting it happen

America is run by the Neo-Nazi party, and following their idols more or less to the T.

Israel is running a widely known genocide, and the world doesnt care.

Global Warming is going to start killing crops en masse soon enough, while removing the amount of livable land.

The American Neo-Nazi party is speed rushing the great depression, and WWIII at the same time.

China is the next largest power in the world, and they arent much better than America.

We've learned nothing. We make the same mistakes over and over. We saw what happens when fascism takes over. Yet it's happening again. Millions died from COVID, and people are abandoning vaccines. The planet is overheating, and our roads are full of giant, gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. None of this had to happen, we had the knowledge to prevent it. We just didn't.

Yes, absolutely, for many reasons.

But greater than the fear is the anger that we will just go on like nothing is wrong each and everyone of us in our personal cage dictated by the perfect system of capitalism where it is impossible to break out and meaningfully influence this.

Being afraid puts one in shackles. There's no sense in being afraid of a situation you cannot change. So: no, I'm not afraid, but I'm pessimistic and I'm trying to adapt, and prepare myself with my kids for a possibly worse future and try to develop workaround strategies.

I'm old and this may not happen in my lifetime, but I fear the collapse of the ocean current systems. The resulting global weather chaos would have a drastic effect on my younger family members, some of whom are already struggling to make their way in the world.

The way governments everywhere are backing off green commitments and seems only interested in waging war and/or protecting the greedy makes me despair, but every single day I meet people with warm hearts and open minds, so I do have some hope.

Not really, I'll be dead before it get's too bad.

Techno robber barons pushing us toward ecological disaster? Why would anyone be afraid of that? /s

Although on a serious note, I don't despair; I'm taking action, and I hope plenty of others are as well.

Everyday, whenever I hear the hum of a combustion engine. It's the sound a group of people make when they're indirectly killing someone; however, as of yet that person likely isn't known to them and the death happens maybe in a few years so they can easily ignore these facts and continue to pretend that they are a good person.

The most prudent passage for me is the lyrics of the poem spoken in God Speed You! Black Emperor's song Dead Flag Blues:

We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

What scares me is a humans ability to ignore things. To continue to behave in such a way, to maintain a lifestyle, that is excessively detrimental to themselves and everyone and everything they have ever known and loved and will come to know and love.

They can easily come up with excuses for their actions, exactly like an addict, and just like an addict you can't use logic with them. I am sure there are people reading this, if they got this far, that are thinking up thousands of excuses and reasons for why they continue to burn fossil fuel for their own convenience. How to dismiss this somehow, with an angry reply or whatever else. As if the chemical waste they themselves released into the atmosphere doesn't count, as if it somehow did not contribute to the catastrophic biosphere collapse that has already killed millions of people. Hundreds of millions. As if they can be forgiven for that small transgression. As if by being part of the group they can avoid blame for the groups actions and it's consequences.

They simply can't give a shit, because they're good people.

YES

Climate change, consolidation of power in the hands of fewer and fewer, increasing economic inequality, increased surveillance, AI, enshittification of everything

Yes, the future looks rough.

Yes, but I'm more scared for humanity itself than the system. We had the chance and the means to create a generous and free heaven, and instead we have created a greedy debt slave hell.

The system isn't the problem, it's us. And if we don't learn then we're heading for another repeat.

Did you know that we actually have the means to eradicate poverty the world over?

I started drinking more! You should try it.