The end result is the same, no matter which side prevails. At the same time, disinformation and propaganda continue to be spread by those who are outright denying the growing existential threat. Like the collapse of the Surfside apartment building in Miami where the residents lived oblivious to warnings signs from decades ago, the collapse of industrial civilization will follow a similar response to anthropogenic climate breakdown. At this late stage, techno-optimists still cling to the belief that somehow we can adapt and thrive in an inhospitable and deteriorating post-Holocene epoch. Our suicidal march into the abyss seems to be preordained because we have paid no heed to an endless stream of dire scientific reports and warnings that span decades. Thus it is easy to write off the millions of deaths from industrial pollution as a cost of doing business, especially when the rules of the game are written for shareholders far removed from the damage being wrought. Too fragmented and dysfunctional to save itself, we exist not as human beings but as consumers and statistical numbers on a spreadsheet. Modern society is more connected than ever digitally, but not emotionally or intimately. The planet’s last remaining natural resources and biodiversity are being liquidated at breakneck speed in order to maintain the colossal enterprise of industrial civilization. Remember last year when Australia’s mega-fires killed or harmed 3 billion animals? I thought that horrific trauma would be mankind’s epiphany on climate change, but it’s clear that as long as there is a dollar to be made there will be justification for genocide and ecocide.
This will have massive effects up and down many ecological networks.
“Eventually, we just won’t be able to sustain these populations of filter feeders on the shoreline to be anywhere near the extent that we’re used to,” says Chris Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia.
Over a billion sea creatures are estimated to have cooked to death off the western shores of Canada. We have now made such mass casualty events 150 times more likely with our heat-trapping gases which have doubled the earth’s energy imbalance in just the last 15 years. When these heat domes form during the next warmer El Nino cycle, the results will be disastrous. Take note that we are seeing these unreal temperature spikes at the end of a cooler La Nina cycle. Thus far, nearly a thousand deaths in British Columbia alone are likely attributable to hyperthermia caused by a persistent heat dome that has spiked temperatures to unprecedented levels. For far too long, humans have poked the sleeping monster of abrupt climate change and it’s starting to awaken. The foundation beneath our house of cards is beginning to buckle and heave.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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