it is going to take us decades at best to show the rest of the world that Trump and MAGA were just short blips on the radar
The fun part is we don’t have decades. We’re already at +1.7C. Insurance actuaries are predicting 4 2 billion deaths worldwide at +2C. We will literally never recover from Trump.
It all depends on the tipping points. How many do we trigger and when? But that’s the hard part: hard for people to conceptualize, hard to precisely predict. Even worse, “fast” in geological time is still slower than people are able to focus on. We may already be tipping, won’t know until we’re falling out of the boat, and too many people won’t believe it until they’re drowning
Just look at how this feeds climate change denial: for way too long it was difficult for people to see the difference themselves. Even now when we’re so far into it, risking so much, locked into so much change in our future, “so what if we don’t get as much snow as we used to”
Even if these are restored, the spell has been thoroughly broken.
Trump has shown that the supposedly sacred institutions intended to protect democracy absolutely disintegrate the first time a 3rd rate dictator shows up and knocks them down.
Trump has shown that the office of the presidency itself can be obtained by the most dipshit motherfuckers imaginable.
Trump has shown that our electorate is hilariously unqualified for the responsibility of choosing our elected officials.
Rebuild everything, and what are we left with but a system that is utterly incapable of protecting itself against fascism? How in the absolute fuck can we ever be expected to respect the office of the presidency again after seeing that the absolute worst among us is capable of achieving it?
At this point, I think people are just hoping that the next election will restore the illusion. But for a lot of people, the perception of what this country is will be forever compromised.
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The fun part is we don’t have decades. We’re already at +1.7C. Insurance actuaries are predicting
42 billion deaths worldwide at +2C. We will literally never recover from Trump.I’m gonna need a source on that.
Here you go: https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/
I recalled incorrectly, it was 2 billion deaths at 2C, and 4 billion at 3C.
Thanks.
Sigh
It’s a very nice, very depressing, document. More people should read it.
It all depends on the tipping points. How many do we trigger and when? But that’s the hard part: hard for people to conceptualize, hard to precisely predict. Even worse, “fast” in geological time is still slower than people are able to focus on. We may already be tipping, won’t know until we’re falling out of the boat, and too many people won’t believe it until they’re drowning
Just look at how this feeds climate change denial: for way too long it was difficult for people to see the difference themselves. Even now when we’re so far into it, risking so much, locked into so much change in our future, “so what if we don’t get as much snow as we used to”
Even if these are restored, the spell has been thoroughly broken.
Trump has shown that the supposedly sacred institutions intended to protect democracy absolutely disintegrate the first time a 3rd rate dictator shows up and knocks them down.
Trump has shown that the office of the presidency itself can be obtained by the most dipshit motherfuckers imaginable.
Trump has shown that our electorate is hilariously unqualified for the responsibility of choosing our elected officials.
Rebuild everything, and what are we left with but a system that is utterly incapable of protecting itself against fascism? How in the absolute fuck can we ever be expected to respect the office of the presidency again after seeing that the absolute worst among us is capable of achieving it?
At this point, I think people are just hoping that the next election will restore the illusion. But for a lot of people, the perception of what this country is will be forever compromised.
Honestly you couldn’t have been more on the nose. Trump has harmed the world in deep and foundational ways. Mostly involving trust and good will