Or…This is How Civilization Finally Changes for the Better

Take it apart. Reconstruct. Make something new! [author’s title] Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

In conversation with This is How Our Civilization Ends … A Brief, Scary History of the Next Three Decades

by umair haque

Alternative to the lonely dandelion breaking apart. It isn’t dying, see. It’s spreading its seeds to create new life. [My cutline] Photo by Joss Kerkhof on Unsplash

Very interesting. But I have spied a plot hole very early on. And it’s not quite all that doom and gloom. Even tho it will be very hard to pull out of this, the changes being made in people’s lives are likely to have a social as well as economic effect…and in a profound way.

If the global economy collapses as badly as umair haque suggests [and it sounds perfectly reasonable to me], it would very much lessen the impact our economy has on climate change. All of our pollution — air, water, land — is the result of both capitalism and the Chinese mixture of capitalism and communism. [China is the worst polluter of all, tho the US comes in a close second.]

Right now, Southern California is enjoying the bluest skies it has had in a hundred years. Hardly anyone is driving. The factories that have the biggest carbon footprint are shut down. In California, mostly, people are holding the line, and the metaphorical…