The Ghost of Carl Sagan, astrophysicist & ethicist
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Venus-ification starts NOW - a tsunami born from the ripples of hominid causation. Shield the twin flames of compassion & bio-empiricism, or all is truly lost.
Go slow, go local, rewild & reintegrate all activity in2 Earth’s biosphere. In the event that civilization fails 2 immediately undertake these 4 adaptations 2 existence, neither the forms of govt humans empower, nor the personalities they elevate 2 leadership, will matter 1 whit.
I know of a child, born in 2023, whose lack of verbal skills just prior to starting school is professionally being blamed on a “lockdown” (read: no brunch for a week) that she was not yet alive to experience. Madness reigns.
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Humanity will be unable to geo-engineer its way out of the collapsing biosphere for the simple reason that SARS2 is progressively eroding human cognition. The low IQ pandemic is real, & it’s an apocalypse.
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Westerners, who in 2019 might reasonably have expected to remain active into their 80s & 90s, are just now starting to see that they were conned into burning through 20-30 of those years in order to service a "return to normal" for their hypercapitalist overlords.
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1 morning not so distant you’ll wake up 2 no Internet, then some time later 2 no power, & then a few days later 2 no running water, & that’ll be that for 99% of homo s., no bangs, explosions or skyrockets… that’s cascading systems failure. Once recognized, it’s already too late.
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The DNC superspreader convention shld scare the hell out of the world… as it implies that the USA’s electorate is so far under the spell of the corporate fantasy of hunky dory-ness, that to even TELL them the truth about SARS2 makes 1 instantly unelectable. Madness reigns.
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Venus-ification will kill the oceans 1st, then the nutrient cycle will collapse, & that’ll be it for the naked apes, no CNN coverage when the last water boils off into space (you think I’m kidding).
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Mpox clade I emerged as a result of the SARS2-damaged immune system’s inability to halt the evolution of the generic Mpox virus of 2022. As such, responsibility for the horror about to transpire falls squarely on the shoulders of the ‘let er rip’ anti-public health professionals.
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@denise_dewald
@fitterhappierAJ
Western moderns don't have the emotional fortitude to withstand an assault on their pleasure-seeking, hence their need to obscure the behavioral realities of an airborne pandemic with their personal wellbeing fantasies.
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Venus-ification says you’re all gonna die a most gruesome death at the hands of each other as ecosystems fall like dominoes if you don’t get your heads out of your asses, pronto.
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Sequelae from SARS1 were permanent, they did not resolve before the death of the subject. Why are we not assuming SARS2 sequelae are the same until a definitive mechanism driving early resolution is found? Oh right, this is that newfangled PH policy called “HOPE!”
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@yasmin_poole
Wait, why is the inventor of PayPal, the most banal tool of the Internet commerce-age, seen as the repository of some type of genius that must be passed on to Oxford grads? Oh right, it has everything to do with hyper-capitalism, and nothing to do w/ intellectual achievement.
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@tiredguineapig
Social murder & suicide all wrapped up in 1 ludicrous sequence of mental images that perfectly captures the gestalt of this year of the Great Turning, 2023.
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@DSEDunn
Some of us have been trying to warn for the past 4 yrs that this wld be the inevitable result of downplaying (& now ignoring) a neuroinvasive & degenerative zoonotic virus w/in a naive population.
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Paxlovid has ceased to be a lifesaving drug, and has instead become a lifestyle drug. Make no mistake, this IS a preemptive class warfare strike, perpetrated by the 1%.
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@broadwaybabyto
That's not why they are angry. They're angry b/c they know they've cooked their own goose by misunderstanding & maladapting to the times in which they're living... & you, as a member of the futurehumans cohort, bring to mind everything they've done wrong.
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You thought H5N1 was the boogeyman in the Before Times, wait till you see how it runs roughshod over the SARS2-decimated immune systems of 2024’s human population.
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@LauraMiers
The Great Dying gathers steam... why can so few see it? The caustic disregard for any - & everything related to - lifeforms beyond one's immediate family is utterly terrifying, & an aspect of collapse that I had undervalued in terms of emotional impact.
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Humans have 1 task before them: To save their only habitable world’s biosphere. If they continue to shirk that ultimate responsibility, neither the forms of govt they empower, nor the wisdom of those leading them, will make 1 lick of a difference.
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And if THAT dawning reality doesn't bring folks out into the streets demanding at minimum a scapegoat, then Thiel truly has won & civilization is good & cooked!
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@1goodtern
Everyone's vulnerable. Any exceptional folks w/ "ubergenetics" reading this, all I humbly ask of you is to wait quietly & observe what starts happening to your health after 2, but before 4, bouts with SARS2. You're all in the same boat, but fooled by occupying different decks.
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Prediction: H5N1 is gonna jump Recommendation: Prepare your family like their survival depends solely upon their own agency ($), because it does, H5N1 will burn through the population long before 21st Cent W democracies can agree on a response. SARS2 mitigations are the solution.
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The initial, acute phase of the SARS2 infection does MORE damage to the human immune system than the equivalent phase of HIV, this portends very bad outcomes for T + 4 yrs. Not a virus to casually spread among your loved ones.
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$100s of million spent equipping each commercial airline seat w/ a floatation device…prepping to survive an event that has literally never happened in the history of aviation. While SARS2 clouds billow through cabins w/ nary a peep from travel risk managers. Collective suicide!
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@yourfavpaisan_
An abortion is ALWAYS necessary if the woman choosing the procedure deems it so. No one else has jurisdiction over her body. Not even Elon Musk.
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@MorePerfectUS
What's not being said, but which I can read from his eyes & facial language: "That's just the price of running a successful business in this fine christian country."
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If homo s. were in possession of 1/2 the intelligence it lays claim to, it would recognize the SST map below for the planet-killing asteroid that it represents. It's what Venus-ification looks like in realtime.
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@WalkerBragman
And the two-year anniversary of the West adopting eugenicide as state policy across the board, and then imposing it on the colonial transplanted Pacific island nation-states.
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@LadyChuan
This person has at least an embryonic conscience, most recreational travelers never even question whether it’s right to commit social murder as a side effect to avoiding inconvenience.
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Do Americans understand on a gut level that they have all been made actors in a Hunger Games documentary? & that NO society in history has survived turning its people against themselves in a desperate scramble 4 life’s necessities?
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Whether lamenting Eur's naked Alps, Canada's yr-round tundra fires, Bhutan’s collapsing ice dams, Mongolia’s livestock snuffing snowfall, or SE Asia’s wetbulb deathtemps, all roads lead back to this one chart... until well beyond the date when humankind’s fossil-fueled orgy ends.
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It's why the precautionary principle was articulated - to save your life, & the lives of your loved ones, from small likelihood, big impact events. Alas, human hubris & eroding cognition have removed it from civilization’s arsenal. But hey, there’s football!
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If you think Harris, or any other public figure, can contract SARS2 over & over again w a result any different to the ending we see playing out for Biden & Trump, you are a fool of the highest order.
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@WHCOS
@ashishkjha
Don't you mean that America's working class owes a debt of gratitude to America's billionaire class for graciously allowing them to suffer the inequities of serfdom in our neo-feudal economy?
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@Racsacm
@JesseTMcCann
Bingo. What people failed to grok is that they'd been living in the kindest times in the history of civilization...once they ceased to cherish that reality, crashing back to a short, brutal existence was inevitable. Meanwhile, hubris deludes the rich into an immunity fantasy.
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@mcsquared34
"Follow the $ & all will be revealed" only works in societies that choose integrity & accountability. For the kloptocracies it's all just garbage in, garbage out.
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I’d be curious to find out what % of a civilization’s cassandras turn to alcohol for relief from the certainty of a dystopian future, or as comfort after being ostracized by the feel-good majority.
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I've been fighting a battle that I no longer believe can be won via compassion & empathy applied in cyberspace, as SARS2-stricken humanity has now clearly devolved into insanity. I may still Tweet weather imagery & forecasts from time to time, but otherwise, I’m out of here. 🫡
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@ClimateBen
In fact, humanity has 6 mos to commit, & 18 mos to implement. But that might as well be 18 hours given the avalanche of excuses our necrocapitalist overlords will make for why such transformation is impossible.
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@nohomelikeplace
We won't blink when the tally passes 200 million humans, so not sure I was expecting much reaction to the birds, other than some grumbling about the price (in coin, not morality or biodiversity) of eggs.
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@1goodtern
See it, yes, but not ascribe it to SARS2. Preferring the MSM fantasy in which the weekend they avoided the pub permanently damaged their immune system.
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@laurabaranik
You are not alone, folks need to start organizing and marching on Washington, Paris, London etc and demand that their govts set up all the necessary programs for minimal well-being, whatever that is defined as.
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@Prof_J_Lawton
It has already been normalised. Life expectancies will drop back into the 60's across most Western societies by 2030, MARK MY WORDS, as many of us have been warning for over 2 yrs now.
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@MelpomeneMel
@jklmd123
Those of us who realize that fact have no power to influence policy. The rest aren’t bright enough to understand that concepts and processes they can’t grok are legion.
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Millions of Americans nearing retirement age with no savings - CBS News
That sounds like a promising future for an already destitute populace. If only there was a way to be free of that half before they retire and start complaining, oh...
@DisabledBeing
It’s all ego and selfishness, it has nothing to do with kids. Look at the world we’re giving to those precious children, wouldn’t damn my worst enemy with it.
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@PsionicPsittacc
Your anecdotally-fueled hunch is on the mark in this case. SARS2 assumed humans wld try to avoid it and therefore would need to alter their brains in order to reach endemicity...turns out humans lap it up like ice cream even though there is no endemicity, only slow death.
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@MARKBEVIS3
True, but the point in transformative change in 2025 isn’t to make life cushier or more pleasant for the living, but rather to heap the least amount of suffering as is feasible on the YET TO BE BORN of all species that squeeze through the bottleneck.
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What humankind accomplished is actually quite extraordinary, in 1/2 a millennium, a geological & evolutionary blink of an eye, 1 species burned through an entire planet’s natural resources, poisoned its biosphere, & kicked-off a mass extinction.
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@GrGuenter
This level of mindless stupidity plaguing all life on Earth makes it clear that humanity self-affixing the label 'intelligent' is actually proof of just how unintelligent it truly is. Madness reigns.
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The anti-mask psychosis gripping the West is social murder plain & simple. It’s also the beginning of the pearl-clutching madness that I attempted to forewarn civilization about 30 yrs ago. Ride the waves and try not to be pulled under.
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@alpenkraehe
Not surprised, but for some of us “getting on w life & work” means doing everything in our power to reduce the absolute burden of sentient suffering that is inbound, even if the most we can reduce it by is but a smidgeon.
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It's almost time to cease operations on this app... for those who've been following me for a hot minute, you know what that portends (among other things, my utter failure at opening folks' eyes to the carnage imminent across Earth's biofilm).
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