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Humanity is Doomed
Welcome to 2020 when the decline of the economy, energy and environment — the collapse of civilization will make the next two decades a shitshow.
As bad as it is, Australia burning isn’t the real horror. It isn’t the fact that the entire landmass is well on the way to becoming uninhabitable. Australia has become a symbol of our apathy.
What should alarm anyone with any remaining cognitive function is that this isn’t causing much of a negative reaction in the world.
This is the real harbinger of doom.
Every media camera should be focused on the land down under because this is what the future holds for the rest of us. People are not interested. And yet it is merely a footnote in a world where the sixth mass extinction does not seem to concern most humans.
We have those among us who vote, teach children, operate dangerous equipment, and even fly airplanes who believe the Earth is flat. It’s not just a few, either. One in six adults think the world is not round and their numbers are growing.
The cult of ignorance is alive and well, on full display at any MAGAT rally where people promote that dinosaurs are a hoax created to encourage people to reject the Bible.
Perhaps all this neo-idiocracy is the result of the propaganda machine, or an indication that humanity…
