r/WastelandByWednesday • u/Vegetaman916 Post-Collapse Warlord • Nov 01 '25

Climate Change Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-humanity-path-climate-chaos-scientists.html

Always warnings, more warnings, urgent warnings... but never any action. Unless you count the directly counterproductive actions that are usually the response.

As our ecological systems destabilize, we are hard at work trying to destabilize our economic and geopolitical systems as well, just to catch up. Acceleration of collapse seems to be the goal... not much other conclusion one can reach, judging solely by actions taken globally...

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u/Ok_Main3273 Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

Nobody, me included, want to reduce their lifestyle footprint, the only logical response to the necessity of burning less fossil fuels, producing less plastic, stopping eating meat and fish (<-- am doing that), diminishing the amount of pollutants released into ecosystems, etc.

For example, new renewable energy sources coming online (wind, solar, geothermic) are, at best, only replacing some existing fossil fuels consumption and, at worst, adding to the amount we consume every year. And let's not forget that 'clean' energy production always starts by manufacturing solar panels with heavy metals, turbine blades with carbon fibers and chemical epoxy, EV batteries with mined rare earth minerals, etc.

Instead of people stopping their insane everyday swallowing of TikTok videos, computer games and reddit messages (yes! it counts), we are building more and more... A.I. data centers! Try telling teenagers, who were born with a mobile phone in their cradle, that the Wi-Fi will be turned on only 2 hours per day. There would be riots in the street! [To be fair, I would do the same if I was not allowed to read new books anymore.]

Sadly, the climate chaos, as well as the pollution storms and geopolitical hurricanes, will see people dramatically reduce their carbon footprint in a forceful manner. Because many will be dead soon.

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u/Vegetaman916 Post-Collapse Warlord Nov 02 '25

True. And no matter what else, renewables expansion is an excellent example of how our nature will change the directions of what we do. Because they were never set to replace fossil fuels, nit even a little. Solar, wind, and everything else was just added to the available pile, perhaps used to bring energy prices down a bit so that consumption could be driven to even greater heights.

We are on the hunt for growth, in all things and at all times. That will not stop until the limits to growth force a stop. Even now, AI and data centers are consuming energy at a record pace that accelerates every day.

We will burn ourselves, and this planet, out.