I've been intentionally avoiding doing blogs like I used to on here; where I go off on current affairs, juxtaposed with history, trying to inform but mainly just cursing a fuck load. It's taking its toll on me. I've been speaking out against this bullshit for decades now, mainly to friends, random posts online and in political spectrums. Ever since I left social media sites a few years back, this has been the only place I post my thoughts. Considering how unpopular those have always been and how it seems to only depress others or increase the distance between us, I've been actively avoiding posting such things and have made efforts to spread humor and support instead.
I can't keep quiet right now. This is all going down the drain quickly. In my personal life, something I often avoid discussing with anyone, my health concerns have become more problematic, chronic pain is more intense and constant, my mood often varying from the Bi-polar, PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression, and just the general shittiness that is living day to day in this fucked up world we've engendered. I've worked very hard my whole life and my body and mind just can't seem to keep up anymore. Include long-covid and seasonal allergies into the mix and it's quite the hell ride. But, enough about me. This is about we.
Projections are pretty stark. Economically, the chance of a global recession next year range from about 28% to 48%. Economists estimate roughly a 2.5% to 3.8% decrease in GDP overall. Just the tip of the iceberg if other future projections are accurate. The US is on track with Denmark in regards to potential bankruptcy by 2025. After all, we've learned nothing and done nothing in the decade following the Occupy Wall Street movement and continue to reward billionaires with tax dollars that are meant for social safety net programs. Infrastructure is complete shit. Education is ruined. Healthcare is a travesty. Corrupt corporations run everything and politicians are just greedy mafiosos torturing the masses with needless and ceaseless suffering and struggling.
History has shown us what happens when greedy corporations cause rampant inflation: the value of the dollar decreases, in some cases becoming worthless. Happens pretty much every time they repeal Dodd-Frank and Glass-Steagall, or was relatively constant before those were even implemented. Time and time again we are here because the greedy few focus on quarterly profit margins, shit all over everyone, and forget the importance of long-term investments. But, enough about the financial side of things as I could write a college paper on that alone.
How about the climate? How many are even aware of the looming threat around the corner? More specifically, the Antarctic shelf collapse projected to happen around 2025-2026, more commonly referred to as the Doomsday Glacier. When it collapses it will result in the sea levels rising by at least 60 centimeters or 2 feet. When the Thwaites glacier collapses within 5 years, if the whole system it is holding back collapses, we will more than likely see the sea levels rise by at least 2 meters or 6 feet. Large portions of coastal areas will go under water. Will will lose Florida completely here in the US. Most of the Eastern Seaboard will be submerged. Many places around the world will be under salt water. Coupled with increasing natural weather events and disasters, our complete failure in preparing for these events by severely defunding government agencies, and the constant threat of economic collapse... we are fucked!
This isn't sometime in the distant future. This is around the corner. Before the end of this decade these things will happen! We can't keep kicking the can down the road for future generations to clean up like the generations before, like how the current group of corrupt assholes are doing now, as they have always done. We can't keep failing like we have with the pandemic, which - by the way - Covid isn't the real pandemic that nature typically throws in our face every century. We are grossly unprepared. We will fail.
So, get your shit together and move someplace that isn't near current sea levels. Move to more elevated areas. Keep harassing your government officials and make them do their jobs or hold them accountable, remove and replace them. Run for office if you have to. Just make sure that you can take care of you and yours since obviously the powers that be will not. Come together to tackle these issues or fall prey to the consequences.
I literally lose sleep over this shit. I am stressed the fuck out. I'm angry as fuck. Depressed as hell. My mind is constantly racing about this shit and the repeated bullshit of the past. Things are so terrible where I am that I see no hope in the future. I've run for office twice. I can't make a dent in their intentional barriers. But Idaho is small and inconsequential. I got fired during covid and I was an "essential worker". I've lost damn near everything. I'm lucky enough to have family with land up in the mountains to seek shelter and ride out the storms. I really didn't want to end up living off the land again as I'm still tormented by my childhood. But, we're fucked and this isn't getting any better any time soon.
The real test of survival is right on our asses.
How many people are starving during the current food shortages?
How many more will be forced to suffer as they increasingly get worse?
How many are not getting the health care they need?
How many more will die because of those shortages?
How many are suffering through the heat waves?
How many more will die from lack of air-conditioning as climate change ramps up?
How many are we going to lose before we fix this shit?
How many will remain complacent right up to the end?
How can so many be so willfully ignorant?
How could we possibly let things get so bad, let alone let things get sooooo much worse?