>>11533288societal collapses have neen a reoccurring feature of human civilization for as long as it’s existed, usually because agriculture depletes arable soil faster than it can recover (and in the case of modern industrial agriculture, it does so at somethijg like 10,000x the sustainable rate), or sometimes because rampant social inequality undermines the mechanisms of exploitation that concentrate wealth.
but that’s just normal stuff, intensified by the scale of modernity. you know what’s not normal?
FUCKING MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS.
the only precedence for what we’ve done to ourselves comes from megavolcanoes the size of continents and massive meteor impacts.
we’ve signed our own death certificate already, and the worst part is that we’re dragging a good chunk of complex life with us.
It’s not the end of days, it’s just the end of us, and of the richest biosphere assemblage in planetary history.
