The Chris Hedges Report: Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia

In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look, are already apparent in our world today. Feffer follows them to their logical conclusion. The climate is at war with the human species and every other species. The European Union, overrun with climate refugees, has disintegrated. China and Russia have folded in on themselves, as has the United States, where fractious and violent militias and gangs battle over diminishing resources. Splinterlands, with wry, black humor, is told by the octogenarian geo-paleontologist Julian West, mortally ill from one of the latest pandemic variants. This is a Mad Max world of water wars, imitation foods made from seaweed, inequality, disease, and sleeper terrorists. In the latest installment of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris speaks with Feffer about his book, the climate crisis, and where we are headed as a species.
John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams and the dystopian fiction trilogy Splinterlands, Frostlands, and Songlands. His writing has been featured in a range of outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon.
Chris Hedges interviews writers, intellectuals, and dissidents, many banished from the mainstream, in his half-hour show, The Chris Hedges Report. He gives voice to those, from Cornel West and Noam Chomsky to the leaders of groups such as Extinction Rebellion, who are on the front lines of the struggle against militarism, corporate capitalism, white supremacy, the looming ecocide, as well as the battle to wrest back our democracy from the clutches of the ruling global oligarchy.
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[@thalgott3]

It's great to see Chris reviewing and discussing books again!

[@joe-el7iw]

wankiers on the half shell. you came for wisdom, i came for entertainment. lol.

[@michaelbartlett6864]

Thanks Chris and Real News Network for this interview with author John Feffer and this glimpse into our dystopian future, already well underway!

[@Kaliashdevi]

This is what you need to look out for kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIS7Zp2tq8uhrsU

[@michaelbartlett6864]

@@Kaliashdevi Interesting

[@treefrog3349]

One factor that is not mentioned is the tremendous ill will that U.S. arrogance has generated globally. The cumulative schadenfreude that America will experience will only help to exacerbate its demise. Sadly, in will be the American People that suffer the consequences and not the blue-nosed architects of US exceptionalism.

[@salvatorefarmerson3226]

I'll check out the book. Thank you for the interview

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Chris Hedges for having John Feffer on. I bought his book. I saw this the day it came on. May 22, I erased and rewriting this again May 2023. Now it says July 8 , 2022 when this was done.

[@gpmom1614]

I'm so happy you're continuing your great interviews on TRN. I usually listen to yt videos while doing chores. I missed the very beginning of your introduction that this book takes place in 2050. Describing the systems as they are described in this sci-fi book, I really thought you were describing current day events until you said a hurricane destroyed wdc & the capitol moved to Kansas city. "Europe system being destroyed. Roving gangs in the u.s. Water wars." I thought, "Yes. that's happening." Then you mentioned the wdc hurricane & I realized you were describing a fictional book." For a second there, it was kinda like what listeners thought during the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. Well, that woke me up from my sleepiness! Great interview. I'll be getting the book. Thanks, Chris.

[@hamasmillitant1]

@@punapeter you sure your only collecting 10%? many countrys only allow you to take 10% of the water that falls if you build dams big enough to hold more than that they notice with satellites and come fine you

[@hamasmillitant1]

this year even though humans had record emissions the planet due to melting permafrost emitted more CO2 than all humanity combined. 54% vs 46%, its the venus effect, (they think that once upon a time vensus didn't look that differnt to earth before run away greenhouse effect) now the permafrost is melting with its 1600ppm of CO2(800ppm will be released by the time 1/2 of it melts which will happen by 520ppm....) unless we can take out more than planet emitts let alone humans then warming will continue till theirs no permanent ice on planet & likely no humans maybe whatever the rich evolve into will stil be around but our genetic diversity, already less in whole human race than 24 fruit flys will be a 1000th of what it currently is is/were more likely to die out from inbreeding like cheetahs than anything right now im not sure how long the ice will take to melt, thats about the only debate still being had will it take 20 yrs will it take 1000, consensus used to be like 100 years but the last few years they have found ice sheets melting at 4x or more predicted rate so we might see a iceless planet by 2050

[@Monkeybongoes]

Not sure how anyone can say w confidence "it's not too late to address climate". If anything, it is more sound to confidently conclude we cannot address climate at this point. Things are rapidly deteriorating, and we have the last 10-20 yrs of emissions that haven't unleashed their full impact. Meanwhile, emissions continue to grow year by year with no end in sight, only a bunch of mandates and hot air about doing something.

[@elsonck2523]

Read the IPCC 2022 report. We have already reached warming at 1.5 celsius with 2.0 being the tipping point of no return.

[@Lyra0966]

Sadly, I agree. And as someone who has step-children all full of hope and aspirations I feel desperately sorry for the young and the next two to three generations. These will experience the worst of it all. I'll not be around - having lived a reasonably prosperous (by international standards!) and fulfilling life - to see most of the very worst disasters unfold.

[@johntravena119]

Completely agree with you. There is clearly no trace of cooperation (an action the Dalai Lama constantly prescribes for a sane future) amongst our politicians except unfortunately when it comes to war and greed. And they’re doing their damndest to start a nuclear war at the moment. The recent solidarity building among labor is the only sign of democratic life visible at the moment. We need to expand this solidarity to the ferocious pursuit of peace.

[@Monkeybongoes]

@@johntravena119 As well as lowering emissions and reducing wealth inequality. No reason to have billionerrors or mega-millionerrors.

[@johntravena119]

@@Monkeybongoes Solidarity, brother. 👊

[@loninappleton]

I'm subscribed to RNN. Viewed the previous Chris Hedges series On Contact at RT. The best of those were not about fiction. Among the best was my introduction to Natasha Dow Schull on "Addiction By Design" which began with an investigation of slot machines pointed toward the evolution of hand held phones that play games. Those interviews presented new material not normally heard on news discussion programs.

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

Some expert recently said that the most dangerous invention of modern years is the Smartphone. For sure.

[@futon2345]

Glad to see Chris crack a smile for once lol 😂

[@VictheChick]

Our Cassandra deserves a giggle, now and again 🙂

[@nigellawson8610]

I think at this point in time it's too late to turn the climate ship around. The way things are going I would not be surprised if we wind up with six degrees of global warming over pre industrial levels by the end of the 21st Century. Looking at the current geopolitical environment, the prospect of meaningful cooperation between the World's major power blocks to solve the existential threat of population overshoot is remote to non existent. When it comes down to it, humanity will ether go out with the bang of nuclear war or with the whimper of catastrophic climate disruption in the next few decades. The reason why I am so pessimistic about the future, is because it takes so long for societies to reverse course. For example, it took nearly one hundred and seventy years to birth women's liberation in the West. Therefor, all this talk about changing the way we collectively think about our place in the World by the end of the decade is so much twaddle. I would venture that for most people alive today, to imagine a World without Capitalism is analogous to a person in 1500 trying to conceive nature without the omnipresence of the supernatural. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people throughout history have lacked the imaginative capacity to think beyond the end of their noses. Without the existence of a ruthless revolutionary vanguard that possesses the will to drag the rest of the population screaming and kicking into the future, most people, like sheep, will follow the path of least resistance even if that path ultimately leads to their doom.

[@bgoodfella7413]

Yeah I feel you. But when people wake up to this fact they do see how important it is and can be very passionate

[@lorincowell6944]

Churchill's idea of Empire may not have survived, but the financialist sector that inherited it, certainly does.

[@hollyw9566]

England still has it's filthy claws in everything. It uses the U.S. to aid and abet it. Look at Northern Ireland. Nowhere has colonialism been more brutal. And it still is. Hong Kong. Egypt. Iraq. Palestine. People forget that Hitler wasn't faffing around in North Africa for the fun of the sun - they were already fighting for oil. We just overthrew Pakistan's legitimately elected government. England has been responsible for dividing up other people's countries and setting their populations against each other in increasingly violent and world threatening ways. FFS. Which tail is wagging which dog?

[@joe-el7iw]

corporatism, i.e. fascism.

[@SineadNYC]

brilliant info, brilliant interviewer

[@vonduus]

I bought the books. And I had a very good time reading them. The footnotes are really funny, in a very deadpan way. :-)

[@andreschang8526]

Well, my fellow members of the human family, at least we were around as long we were.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Most economists pretend there is no planned obsolescence and all of them ignore the depreciation of durable consumer junk. They don't talk about NDP, Net Domestic Product, even though the algebra is defective.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Double entry accounting is 700 years old but neither the Left nor the Right advocate mandatory accounting/finance in the schools. If that had been done since Sputnik what would the economy be like today?

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@punapeter That is not the definition of Net Domestic Product I have seen in any economics book.

[@Bulovablan]

Thanks for rational, competent and extremely useful information.

[@DrDanWeaver]

Chris, you're a great hero of mine.

[@Lyra0966]

44Wynter 0 seconds ago Today, once again, I tried to explain some of our global energy and technology limitations to some friends of mine. And again I got the same sorts of responses: "We'll get through it because look at what we're capable of, sending rockets to Mars and exploring space... etc etc. I'm tired of trying to explain our fundamental predicament - finite planet, finite natural resources, the fundamental issue of cheap accessible energy, EROEI and so forth to people who just don't want to hear it. People think I'm just another obsessive, conspiracy theorist or that mathematical and thermodynamic realities are merely matters of opinion. One of my friends responded to my arguments against the possibility our enjoying some future techno utopia with, "I don't believe it". I thought afterwards that a person could believe that 2 plus 2 can equal 5 all they want to, but mathematics says otherwise. Fact is, we built this modern idustrial civilization on the once abundant and seemingly limitless fossil energy laid down by our planet many millions of years ago. Now that energy is declining rapidly and we are not remotely prepared for the transition. Our civilization will go the way of all previous civilizations that squandered the gifts that mother nature bequeathed them.

[@Lyra0966]

@Mark Taylor Of course you are right. Shock and terror, possibly preceded by an ever increasingly bewilderment and sense of unease as things begin to fall apart. I'm certainly noticing it around me today. But I had a very definite sense of what might be coming about 25 years ago when I was walking through some back streets in a large city. I looked up at a relatively new building, all shiny with plastic and glass. But it was already stained by water marks and grime. I didn't have the language or more technical, in-depth understanding back then. All I remember thinking very strongly was that most of the city would one day fall in to disrepair or dereliction because we were building too much stuff and we'd eventually run out of energy. I didn't even mean fossil fuel energy, just human energy and some sort of societal stamina. I'd never heard the terms EROI, 'overshoot' or 'carbon footprints'. It's only over the past 3 years that I've learned these things and much more besides. Yes, I'm somewhat obsessive about learning all I can. But I second guess my own instincts, and even the testimony of the experts, all the time. Problem is, the more I learn the more convincing becomes the picture. I think we are accelerating in to a perfect storm of multiple crises that will reinforce and amplify one another. And most people around me are all but oblivious or devil-may-care as to the coming catastrophes.

[@blondiegreeneyes4802]

Fascinating. I can't wait to read this book.

[@joe-el7iw]

its unreadable.

[@johnchemist8628]

Along these lines, Atlas Hugged, is a fun answer to Atlas Shrugged...

[@Adamb87]

The best ideas and solutions are all coming from the young , socialist , activists or environmentalist , we need to take power to take action

[@VictheChick]

Sure, but "how?" is always the pertinent, unanswered question which follows such statements.

[@Adamb87]

@Vic , We need to engage in civil disobedience , continuous general strikes , vote Socialist or Green in elections, adopt strategic essentialism to come together as one mass movement, elect real working class politics, promote left wing quality media sources (real news/novara) and keep fighting

[@VictheChick]

@@Adamb87 Perhaps... First though, what 'n heck IS "strategic essentialism?!"

[@Adamb87]

@vic the way I'm using the term is what it means in England (where I live) , it's activist/social/political groups with separate but truly progressive transformative goals and ideas who are on the 'real left' put aside their differences to achieve an agreed set of core goals which will be built upon once in power. For example , you would put together Black Lives Matter , Extinction Rebellion, anti war pro peace movements, trade unions, various socialist, communist and environmental groups or parties across the country and the world . Rather than all these groups being separated and siloed into less effective individual movements. Long explanation but for me their is power in people and it is people power that can transcend the nihilistic neoliberal and neofascist currently governing much of the world

[@VictheChick]

@@Adamb87 No worries, I just didn't know what the term meant.

[@davidcollins8150]

It can be said, for the very short period of 1990-2020, it was the best time on earth for humanity as a whole. In spite of that statement, there was still plenty of suffering. We are indeed a strange species.

[@bryandovbergman5654]

I read Alfred McCoys book after watching Hedges interview him on RT. I'm not anglophile, but McCoy shows that Britain tried really hard to eradicate slavery where ever her navy went. The Brazilians give the Brits quite a fight to keep slavery

[@Nine-Signs]

These opening monologues are beginning to resemble the news reports on a game called plague inc. That's not a good thing as far as the world is concerned.

[@mattbba8451]

I just can't read one more thing about how fucked we are. I am unable to separate my emotions from the facts and so almost everything I watch on KZbin now and anything I read telling the truth about where we are and where we are headed literally makes me sick and angry. Without change soon I am going to just walk away from everything. There is no point in trying to help or fix things when no one in power will allow it. They have the money and the guns. They have the order taking weapon toting zealots in the military, the police, FBI, CIA, etc.

[@hamasmillitant1]

yeah id say dont give up but i already walked away from society a decade ago, i just come back to point out how long ive been saying we where past the point of no return :P after they managed to turn 1/2 of anon into Q with just adding a ignore function and mandatory user ID's to spaces we communicated in i knew they had managed to harness the internet into the biggest brainwashing operation in human history, if they could turn 1/2 the anarchists into fascists just like that no sector of society is above their brainwashing the only factor im still working out in the timeline of the 4th Reich's cooking of the 'undesirable elements' in their global gas chamber is how fast the ice will melt i say we are past point of no return on the oven if not operation tower of babble becuase this year and last year despite humans emitting record levels of CO2 the earth still accounted for 1/5th more warming than all of humanity combined, 2021 earth emitted 54% of warming gasses humans 46% and 2022 looks liek humans will be a even smaller share of warming, because we started venus effect/permafrost melting and it has 1600ppm equivalent of co2 in it but will be half melted by the time we hit 520ppm in atmosphere.... meaning if we dont want a 2000ppm world we have to start taking more CO2 out of atmosphere than we put in last year..... every year for decades....... & wed have had to start doing that in 2019..... hence why ive said for some time that the fascists won this round that humanity is going to experience the largest die off in its history and well be lucky to have 20000 members of the species left at the turn of next century if the last mass human die off 90,000yrs ago is anything to go by, they just had a little ice age to deal with though not venus effect which is a lot harder to adapt to because theirs a lot more energy in system in a hot house than in a ice age so theirs a good chance it ends in a hard extinction for humanity, im not a betting man but the odds arent in our favour if i was to place a wager id put it on the viruses inheriting the earth

[@price724]

What’s the name of the song at the beginning..artist

[@ivandafoe5451]

Not sure which song it is, but the singer is the great John Lee Hooker.

[@egeneraltnf]

Yeah the people are not going to figure it out! Their too busy dealing with their own personal problems.

[@paulbrammer1596]

Sounds good but this area has already been covered in both fiction and non-fiction by James Howard Kunstler and many of the peak oil authors of the early 2000s.

[@tinoyb9294]

Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven predicted his Arcadia along with using an iceberg for fresh water.

[@VictheChick]

"Ecotopia" also comes to mind.

[@robertrichard6107]

Growth at all costs was not the mantra of Communism, Trotsky thought it needed to grow, not Stalin.

[@tinoyb9294]

This book was written in 2016! It would have been nice to know when this was recorded. More so because there are two more books in the series. Come on, dude.

[@DennisMoore664]

Checking websites and twitter it seems like this was recorded in the past week or two.

[@VickiNikolaidis]

Amazing author: "With The Caryatids, Bruce Sterling has written a stunning testament of faith in the power of human intellect, creativity, and spirit to overcome any obstacle - even the obstacles we carry inside ourselves.The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population."

[@duellingscarguevara]

Mad max world. (Road warrior, to murkans?). Kennedy/Miller (the guys that came up with the mad max movie), were very prescient, as it turns out. (More an extension of logic, than imagination, that seemed fanciful, at the time?).

[@debraperez7171]

I disagree with the rural vs. urban idea. I believe it's absolutely class warfare.

[@DennisMoore664]

I'd argue they are not either/or subjects but that both very much exist together. Class warfare and everything that comes with that is everywhere, but there is also a divide expressed in many ways and most places between people who live in rural regions and urban centers. There are individual exceptions to all of this, but recognition of city vs country socio political and other cultural differences have been around for a _very_ long time. I could see the US reaching a place where rural communities and small towns not on any highway or interstate system are largely abandoned by the federal and state authorities to fend for themselves. The next stage in Mr Hedge's aptly called Sacrifice Zones.

[@georgenelson8917]

It comes down to LAND & landownership, the remote spaces that allow a greater private self sustainable life possible. In huge cities it is impossible for the human to live with out money’s and all the FOOD And WATER must be shipped in each day and the sewage and trash hauled out.THE FRONTIER is over so the lid is on the pressure cooker for over 150 years . There was ( is ) no PLAN B to the end of FRONTIER, no weak tribes to steal land from and a war to steal the remaining half of Mexico after THE MEXICAN WAR 1836-48 is unlikely .

[@oswarz]

Well, when are we going to get the pitchforks out?

[@hamasmillitant1]

yeah i tried that everyone was like your being alarmist so now i just sit and laugh as they find ways to justify their steadily decreasing life expectancy/explain away the extinction happening before their very eyes ps last year humans emitted the most CO2 in our history, but for the first time in many decades the earth emitted more warming gasses than humans, almost 1/5 more at 54% feedback loops 46% human intervention we have put enough energy in system now that permafrost is melting and it contains within itself enough co2 to melt itself 3x over by the time it hits 520 ppm in atmosphere it will have melted 800ppm of permafrost........ we estimate permafrost has 1600ppm stored co2 equivalent of warming total, so unless we can start locking up more carbon every year than we produced last year theirs no way to stop it now, it will go right up to 1600-2000ppm before anything changes even if humans disappeared tomorrow, if it changes and we dont just get stuck as another venus like venus did

[@beeamendola]

I don't think Obama would have been Pres in 2028! As a matter of fact we would have needed him NOW for 2024! And i think he would have come forward in that hopeful message where he would have made a difference i believe in world policies and at home here in the US. TY Chris as always great interview!

[@stevenbarton5949]

he would have supported the to big to fail banks either way

[@kenpentel3396]

Thanks

[@tommedlin3009]

well I want to know is how come nobody in power anywhere in the world seems to be doing anything to stop this . there are solutions to all these horrible issues their man made how come no one speaking about them?

[@mr.welterchemistry5681]

People are speaking, but the profit motive prevails. Our leaders would do anything to preserve themselves and their power, including killing us. That's always been the reality for many, but is just becoming a reality for more and more

[@infinateU]

2/2) Implementing A World Wide Universal Basic Income at this point would be PERFECT. Considering The Imminent Solar Flare Threat, a CONTINGENCY Plan MUST BE Initiated. Plus, CITIZENS currently DRENCHED in (RF) RadioFrequencyRadiation (milliWatts) deserve PAY immediately as this WiFi Network is CARCINOGENIC & is ON 24/7. The Green Party Should welcome the World to Solar Cycle 25, a.k.a. "Maxima

[@bryandovbergman5654]

I've been following Nate Hagens and Peter Zeihan. Both from very different backgrounds. Both agree,that the global world order as we know it has come to end..the world is going to have much much less of everything from this decade forward. And less is new for the first time in 500 years

[@richardsawicki8521]

Hey! Seaweed IS "real food"! Has been for a while ! Just ask the Japanese!

[@richardsawicki8521]

Sushi 🍣 🎸 ROCKS ! 🎶🐟 🎵

[@xanbex8324]

Too Happy Go Lucky for me !

[@chrisshipley8703]

Join ThePeoplesCorp

[@jasonfirewalker3595]

Nothing affirms your prognosis like comparing likes on this video to the likes on the latest cat fail.

[@drakekoefoed1642]

if you are not going to save the janitor don't save the ceo.

[@rachelthompson9324]

You'd like my new novel, Book of Answers.

[@jvs333]

I sense the wealthy elites are preparing for an orchestrated US collapse which is why our treasury is sucked up by military spending, a Militarized Police system across the country, the new trend of “police cities” (military police training bases), a Corporatocratic Plutocracy judiciary court system. Privatized prison system. The destruction of public education, the detachment of government away from the public. It looks to me like preparation for a fascist authoritarian police state

[@michaelwoods2903]

So incisive in analysis- now what can we do as a human species? It seems almost nigh on impossible, but the solutions do lie within his analysis where he states that the affluent countries have just lived an unsustainable life that is following its logical conclusion. Therefore the solutions lie in a better understanding of nature and our role as humans within. Nature provides solutions in the success of reef and rain forest ecosystems where every creature has a flourishing diversity because the distribution of energy in the form of sugar is fairly distributed. The 'sugar' in an economy is money. In human societies 'sugar' is hoarded and unfairly distributed resulting in a failed ecosystem. How to build fairer societies is the key where all forms of life systems; parasitic, predator/prey, and symbiosis can be translated into a healthy mix of capitalism with fair competition; socialism and communism as a solution for us humans. The science is rapidly showing us that this is the path forward.After all we are just a creature along the continuum of matter to complex biology. So shouldn't the rules of nature equally apply to our 'arrogant' life system?

[@jimrobcoyle]

B.S. #Aloha

[@sheilamckenzie1479]

A modern day Nevil Shute

[@The.world.has.gone.crazy...]

Citizens became consumers.

[@tsb3093]

….and then we became data…

[@shanehorton7651]

It would be nice for conversations about this topics were talked about normally instead of always being talked about just to push "another book deal". The amount of new book deals I've seen just the two years has made me except guest hosts to tell us about their "book" Just the amount of times This guest has said the word book in the half hour just makes me want to not watch it but its a important subject

[@mr.welterchemistry5681]

Books are a good way to organize longform, complex thought. The interviews are a summary of those forms of expression into this form. I think it's best to take it for what it is

[@gregorybarrett1]

Many Thanks

[@OldEarthWisdom]

barely any volume!!!

[@briankemp7120]

Cool let’s redistribute the after taxed sum of the novel to struggling comic book writers. I’m certain the author would be thrilled too be enrolled in the social monetary restructuring he advocates for.

[@firstlastlastfirst7143]

" The European Union, overrun with climate refugees" is an interesting choice of words. Very sussy.

[@PaulSavoy-ky1ct]

At least there won't be any churches left...

[@getonlygotonly]

the planet will survive. humans, probably not.

[@kevintewey1157]

Edit: Neoliberal "reform " Also: Was it chairman Mao that United the city and the country, uniting the farmworkers with the industrial workers? A task that seemed impossible

[@AudioPervert1]

Mao was also a violent mass murderer. United for what? To make mountains of trash which the world must consume. Pathetic Mao!

[@rogerkamben389]

Fissures his boss who sponsors Open Society, helped create #ClimateCult #Agenda2030 #GlobalMAFIA

[@russiatellsonlytruth373]

Who knew that Hedges would sing for us without Kremlin blood money. 👍. Congratulations, Chris!

[@johnlund2036]

Unfortunately, the collapse of the petrodollar in 2023 is looking more realistic.

[@CrimsonMaplesofAutumn]

OK, let us eat bugs! Problem solved

[@gokuvegeta161]

#161 #1312

[@Labor_Jones]

I don't know about this GUY. - I feel like he's found his BOOK POINTS and now has to support them with FACTS that are subject to debate - imho.

[@Labor_Jones]

@@jillybean4899 The Audio-Critics here making a few bucks all say the same thiing "...go find what works for you.": I like facts most....

[@Labor_Jones]

@@jillybean4899 I'm not sure what you are scared of.. maybe if you explained I could imagine.

[@Labor_Jones]

@@jillybean4899 I understood! As Fiction goes, I think the guy's work could be fun to read. .... I just wish I were more 'hopeful' there is going to be a 2050 with the knowable facts presently.

[@Labor_Jones]

@@jillybean4899 That's SAD. and the word SAD is nowhere near good enough to use. Well, I still write, and I still play after nearly 50 years; that's a pretty good run.

[@Cyberphunkisms]

this book sounds way too exciting to be realistic : the real dystopia is BORING

[@mel8771]

No science fiction idea you’ve had hasn’t been had before.

[@joylarson9040]

No one wants to include God. By excluding GOD you seal your fate to a dystopian future.,

[@richardsawicki8521]

The "End Of History" and "The Clash Of Civilizations" were obscursntist "Cold War" and "Terror War" apologetics. propaganda

[@alloomis1635]

homer sap should be so lucky. terra has been unlivable in the past, and homer is driving the climate in that direction.

[@johnlund2036]

26:07 The Democratic Party is the party that controls everything. Many RINOs join them forming a Uniparty. As noted in an article in the January 2021 Time magazine there was a concerted effort in many quarters to defeat Trump in the 2020 November election to remove Trump from office.

[@kakistocracyusa]

Hedges will figure out in about 5 years that the bigger problem was climate hysteria.

[@hamasmillitant1]

the bigger problem was humans arent very smart last year the earth emitted 54% of warming despite it being humanity's largest emissions on record. the venus effect has begun permafrost started melting at 400ppm theirs 1600ppm co2 in permafrost, 50%+ will have melted by the time we get to 520ppm.... you do the math :P their will be no '1%' survive that would imply that 700,000,000 humans will survive, only 10,000-20,000 will survive if history teaches us anything because thats how many of us survived the last mini ice age @88,000BC their also very unlikely to be anywhere near a industrialized country becuase of all the various toxicitys that come with the breakdown of industrial chemicals & all the guns/weapons that are usualy around in those places for ppl to kill each other with as they starve. no it will be some mongols or bhutanese or something that are the only survivors, some not to developed ppls in what is now almost to cold to live in conditions will be the only survivors 100yrs from now

[@kakistocracyusa]

@@hamasmillitant1 "last year the earth emitted 54% of warming" -- what is your reference for this?

[@lennysandroff8168]

"I look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps Well... I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping [LOVE version:] I look from the wings at the play you are staging. While my guitar gently weeps Look at you all As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weeps kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaO3fpZonpt_sMU