CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!
I’ll be honest even as someone who studies the climate pretty extensively I didn’t think it would be this bad yet.
Maybe if we have cheaper gas, burn more oil, buy even more stuff, and concentrate on having a strong economy, things will get better?
Surely we can capitalism our way out of this mess that capitalism created!
“So it worked! Now I return to 1025 and destroy all the knowledge of this time machine.”
Huh. So Sarah lives in L.A. and can accurately predict the future. I gotta ask her about some lotto numbers…
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Earth actually lasts another two hundred years from now before catastrophic changes happen, and that’s pretty depressing in the context of what’s already happening irl.
We’re just speed running enshitification.
@i_am_not_a_robot
What a year, huh?