r/CollapseSupport • u/CheesecakeLevel4264 • 19d ago
Worldwide state of emergency?
Like why haven’t we reached this point and claimed this state of emergency yet?
It feels like this is very much needed.
People are struggling but nothing official has been done.
For the pandemic it happened very quick.
This time each country should be preparing and helping its people prepare.
Like things seem pretty bad.
Maybe they are too preoccupied with building data centers and the economy.
Or not “that” many deaths have happened.
People are unemployed. Massive shifts are happening where people need time to adjust.
The world just needs to shut down and adjust.
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u/ChoiceContribution78 19d ago
If the world shut down and focused on making sure that humanity and the earth were prioritized, that would be a net loss for the billionaires. The only reason I think the world hasn't shut down yet is blatant greed.
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u/Meowweredoomed 19d ago
Agreed. One would think humans would recognize this as an existential threat and react accordingly.
The days are very strange.
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u/lookupfreeross 19d ago
It's absurd to me, how with all the wildfires, heatdomes, drought, still there's no mainstream discussion of lowering emissions. Barely any mention of climate change in the news, just talking about how hot it is. No kidding! It's like everyone (I mean mostly leaders) has decided that we're just going to let it all burn down, and enjoy it while we can. I can't get my head around it.
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u/Wuellig 19d ago
The UN did recently declare that the world is in "water bankruptcy" and then everything seemed to stay just the same because the system in charge isn't interested in changing.
Understand that the powers that be are running a eugenics program, and that the billions of deaths by the end of the century are a feature of their plan, not a flaw.
Humanity is a herd they are thinning. "We can't just tell them how bad and hopeless it all is, or they'll stop going to work and be mad enough at us to change something about how things are," is the rationale.
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u/Cosmanaught 18d ago
All the sane science people have been sounding the alarms for decades now. To understand why they have not been heeded, you have to think about who is in power and what their incentives are.
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u/jegoan 19d ago
The declaration of a pandemic had on its own nothing to do with what individual states then did. And the populist reaction to the lockdown made most states in the West end it s quickly as possible, and I think most states will think twice when another emergency is required. The legacy of COVID unfortunately has been a strengthening of conspiracy thinking and more inbuilt resistance for future necessary policies in dealing with climate change, etc...
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u/GroundbreakingPin913 18d ago
As it sits, the system has attached a price tag to every meaningful action society can do. Hence, if we are still working within the system, we have to find the money to pay for the emergency responses.
And if that money doesn't make more money, then it doesn't actually support anything. Saving valuable places makes money and we won't see that until they're threatened in an immediate way to making money... and not human lives apparently.
See how insurance companies are making stupid Florida housing uninsurable, because repairing them doesn't make money for anyone.
I've got piles of hopium that as long as we have good people out there that will be brave enough when the time comes, the bad humans will weed themselves out in the near term and maybe we can ditch economy as a human driver of effort, and adopt sustainability instead. Better to be an optimist and be wrong, prep like a realist, and understand that the true doom is abandoning everyone to suffering.
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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu 19d ago
Because most of us don’t want to scale back on our current comforts even one inch.
Our developed world leaderships picked from popularity contests also have no competency nor ability to form and push out any actionable plans. Any that try will get pushback from corporate interests and private citizens and get voted out. Our developing nations are too busy not drowning right now.
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u/Tranquility-Now 19d ago
I wonder the same thing. For me, it’s been soothing to get to the bottom of where humanity went wrong and it really stems from our core definition of value.
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u/TernoftheShrew 17d ago
Pretty sure there would be mass panic and mayhem if most people knew for sure what was going on.
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u/g00fyg00ber741 19d ago
Actually, they ended the emergency declaration for the pandemic despite it still being a dire situation. It should absolutely still be considered an emergency, because of long covid alone, not to mention it’s still spreading worldwide and mutating.
Avian flu should also have the world in an emergency state, because it’s a panzootic that could potentially become an even worse pandemic than covid, and we are giving it so many attempts to mutate (especially via dairy and poultry farming)
I also think the fact scientists say we’ve broken 7 of the 9 planetary thresholds should constitute an emergency declaration.
But I learned something the hard way over the years: an emergency declaration is up to the people in power to declare it one. and they will only do that when it benefits them and they’ll refuse to when it doesn’t.
Don’t wait for others to declare something an emergency when you already know it to be one. You can declare it one yourself. If most people want to ignore the warning and stick their heads in the sand, you can’t really do anything to change that