Steve Genco (@sjgenco) is an essayist focusing on climate change, environmental breakdown, and the eventual collapse of society. I have highlighted his articles before because they are well researched and informative, and also because he does not hold back. Unlike the corporate media, with its bias toward maintaining Business As Usual, Genco is willing to come right out and say what needs to be said.

He has just published sort of a summary of his work, an overview of “What I’ve Learned Writing About Climate Change."

If you really want to know where we stand, I suggest you read this. But please be warned, it could be anxiety-provoking...
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Our childhood of relative stability is now coming to an end as we anticipate human-caused global warming increasing average global temperatures 2°C to 4°C above preindustrial levels, if not higher, catapulting the planet into a climate regime unseen since the late Pleistocene and never experienced by humans.

I've identified several reasons why humanity has been unable to halt its slide into climate catastrophe. The first is the unwillingness of the relatively rich citizens of the Global North to voluntarily accept restrictions on their consumption of resources in order to curb global warming, resource depletion, and ecological damage.

As long as government action remains paralyzed due to resistance and denial, we will continue along the path we have been following for decades. But, as I and many others have argued incessantly, that path contains its own contradictions, and will inevitably end in collapse, despite whatever fantasies those in power continue to believe.

Indeed, those fantasies will, if anything, accelerate and deepen the collapse, as unintended consequences of fantasy-based policies overwhelm and bring to a grinding halt whatever is left of economic growth and capitalist Business As Usual.

In conclusion, I argue that the post-carbon world we are heading toward is likely to be characterized by five major features: fewer people, smaller and much simpler communities and social organizations, more localized sourcing of local needs accompanied by more fragmented political power, much greater attention to sustainability — and a deep sense of guilt, as our descendants come to terms with the death and destruction we have heedlessly and unnecessarily inflicted on the planet and all its inhabitants.
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The above is just a brief excerpt from a long and compelling article. I encourage you to read the whole thing, assuming that you're prepared to handle the awful news.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/NxEjy
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://sjgenco.medium.com/what-ive-learned-writing-about-climate-change-on-medium-ea334d637dc9

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