Is Collapse Coming for Us?

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I dive into the worst-case climate change scenarios that could possibly lead to societal collapse. Specifically, I understand what the literature says will happen above four degrees of global warming in turns of natural disasters, as well as how that will unfold across our economic and social webs.

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Some visuals courtesy of Getty Images
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:21 - A World on Fire
6:47 - A Future of Extremes
12:53 - Collapse Under Capitalism
18:17 - All Is Not Lost
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[OurChangingClimate]

🍂 How are you feeling about climate change these days?

[comegetyourretribution]

We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” – Kurt Vonnegut

[jessthnthree]

who could have thought that infinite growth on a finite planet is not sustainable!

[teddyblomstrom]

Literally every hundredth of a degree of warming matters. Every human life taken by disease, or conflict, or famine, or suicide… those are all people, no different than us.

[morenofranco]

If we haven't cared so far - we are going to be forced to care with regret. Because then it will be beyond "too late".

[AngieMeadKing]

I'm a modern farmer and we struggle growing vegetables at 35c already. Vegetables in the tropics like 28c temps.

[guyinaroom]

Worst part is that many popular climate prediction models have been compared to how extreme the weather actually ended up being and literally all of them severely undershot

[gunnaavinashreddy]

South India is facing one of worst droughts, the heat is unbearable. I have been buying tankers of water to keep my Mango trees alive in my Farm. One more year of low rain fall like 2023 we would not even have water to drink

[KoRntech]

Dr Phillip Mason, "historically mankind has never been able to act until it was time to start digging mass graves of one sort or another." (Our Legacy, your future!)

[igitnisaplit]

And the thing I hate the most about climate change is that, the ones suffering the most are the ones who didn't contribute as much to climate change 😞

[oorzuis]

I lost my trust in the human effort some time ago. and when I say lost I mean lost.

[yasmeenw]

It is sad & scary to think that most of society has access to this education & yet so many will choose not to care

[ErutaniaRose]

How this has been handled is proof that capitalism is illogical and cannot sustain itself long-term.

[Szaone]

"It's only on the brink that people find the will to change."

[PixelShade]

Personally, I am doing everything I can to reduce my climate impact. I currently use 0.6tons CO2 per year according to the WWFs climate calculator. But then there are systematic issues I cannot control (outside of trying to influence people and political discourse). Swedish society -where I live, uses 3.2tons per person. Which takes me to 3.8tons, 0.3tons above the Paris Agreement target. The amount of compromises is something that very few are willing to do... But to me, it's actually enjoyable

Things I do:
- I don't purchase... anything, really... except food
- I use my clothes for 20+ years and I repair them. I see every purchase as a "lifetime purchase"
- I'm vegan, I eat after season
- I bicycle everywhere
- I don't own a car, I rarely use public transit even, except the really cold months.
- I avoid purchasing products with unnecessary plastic packaging, and if I do, I often re-use them, like bread bags and such.
- I live in a small studio apartment that has an exceptionally efficient heating solution.
- The only thing I purchase is new computer parts every 10 years or so. (which is also required of my job as a developer). These days I tend to salvage used parts instead.
- I also ghetto-mod furniture that are being thrown away.

I actually don't feel like I can do much more individually. I really love living like this, living in accordance to my morals. I just wished more people wanted to do the same. You kind of feel like an alien on your own planet not understanding how other people think, especially considering the long-term effects of our inaction. When I have more time on my hands I will try to engage more in volunteer work, and try to inspire people. Currently I am volunteering for a group called "Repair Café" where we support people to repair their the things they own (instead of buying new), while talking about topics such as "reduce, reuse and repair". :) It has become highly popular in my hometown.

[theprecipiceofreason]

It's up to the corporations. The corporations will let us go, help us go, if it increases their profit margins. The end.

[BarbarianGod]

"Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair." --Mariame Kaba

[mafarmerga]

William Catton wrote "Overshoot" in 1982.
We have learned nothing since then.

[SinbathSparrow]

People, we need to organize! The feeling hopelessness is because of our lack of organizational bodies. Get organized! Join socialist or ecological party or group, fight the system! ORGANIZE WE GOT THIS!

[lupineindigo]

Is it sad that at the beginning when describing the conditions in Uttar Pradesh I thought this was a real event until the “millions” death count was mentioned and I was like “wait… I didn’t hear about this on the news”. I just assumed that such horrible weather was already present because it’s already so bad in reality.