Sometimes I look around and life seems normal. There's food in the grocery store, kids playing in the park, birds chirping in my back yard.
But that's what collapse wants you to believe.
Collapse is insidious. Quiet. Creeping silently into the cracks of civilization, camouflaged by the noise.
To exist, collapse can't allow the casual observer to see it. Anecdotes, your eyes, your ears are comfortably deceiving. We want to believe, so we soak up the narrative that puts us at ease.
Of course children are playing. Of course birds are chirping. Just like the string quartet played-on after the Titanic was gouged by an iceberg. Looking only at what's in front of you, of course it seems like still time to play.
The truth, as it always does, emerges from the data. The long term trends paint the most realistic picture, but is buried by academia or blocked by the latest news about the Kardashians.
The empirical paintbrush - the truth - clearly shows that we're fucked.
Below I share a series of charts that explain all you need to know. That is, if you can face reality.
Earth is Trapping More Solar Energy: Energy Imbalance has Risen from +0.4W/m2 to +1.4W/m2 in just 20 Years
Temperature change is rising at an exponential rate
Temperatures Now Rising by 0.43C per Decade
365 Years of Central England Temperatures Clearly Show Recent Warming
400+ Years of Cherry Blossom Data: Flowering Happening Earlier Due to Warmer Temperatures
Number of Hot (90F+) Days Have Doubled Over 50 Years
Record-Breaking Mediterranean Heat
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Peace,
Sarah
For those of us who do know and understand, it's a huge burden. We're all like Cassandra, who could tell the future, but was cursed by the gods never to be believed.
Excellent collection of graphs illustrating reality. Every day of what we call normal is on borrowed time now. And it was never normal, breaking the rules of survivability certainly since the rise of fossil fuels, and likely since the rise of agriculture. So few understand these things. Glad to have a community here that sees truth through madness.