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In his Collapse Curriculum substack, Justin McAffee writes:
Today, humans face a double bind of existential proportions for the entire species, and millions of other species. Put simply, we must choose between:
Option 1: Prolonging human civilization through aggressive extraction, production and resource use, which causes severe environmental degradation that breaches a point of no return making the planet mostly or entirely uninhabitable, leading to the extinction of the human and millions of other species.
Option 2: Ushering the collapse of human civilization prior to breaching point of no return thresholds, potentially increasing short-term human suffering but staving off the vast suffering and deaths and further mass extinction.
I’m inclined to go with door number three, the fantastical notion that suddenly we will Wake Up! and graduate into responsible species adulthood, call it permaculture, a great spiritual awakening or whatever. Demand utopia! The floods, wildfires, hurricanes, Musk — those are merely initiation rites. McAfee concedes: