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The World Has Already Ended<\/a><\/h3>\n
Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don’t know it yet.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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“You say the ocean\u2019s rising,
\nLike I give a shit,
\nYou say the whole world\u2019s ending,
\nHoney, it already did.”<\/em>
\n– All Eyes On Me by Bo Burnham<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The world that many of us grew up in is already gone, replaced by a world of superstorms, megadroughts, brutal heat waves, rising sea levels, toxic chemicals, and mass extinction. It happened so gradually that most people didn\u2019t even notice, but they will soon.<\/p>\n

Many people, particularly those in first-world countries, have been relatively insulated from the effects of the polycrisis, even if they have seen their standard of living drop. So it\u2019s easy for them to dismiss warnings about the end of the world.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often heard people say things like, \u201cWhat\u2019s with all the doom and gloom? Sure, the weather is a little worse, but for the most part, things are fine.\u201d The purpose of this article is to prove that things are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0fine. In fact, things are worse than ever, and it\u2019s all downhill from here.<\/p>\n

Civilization was born during\u00a0the Holocene<\/a>, an epoch that lasted about 10,000 years. During this time, the average global temperature was incredibly stable, never varying more than 1\u00b0C. As a result, weather patterns were also very stable, creating conditions that were perfect for societies to flourish.<\/p>\n

With more predictable weather, farmers were able to greatly expand agriculture, and the ability to stockpile grain contributed to the development of the first civilizations. Humans have had the intelligence necessary to form civilizations for\u00a0about 300,000 years<\/a>, but the Holocene made it possible.<\/p>\n

We inherited a beautiful world covered with vast forests and teeming with millions of species. And in just a couple hundred years, we destroyed it.\u00a0Forests are dying<\/a>, countless species are\u00a0going extinct<\/a>, and the weather has become\u00a0increasingly dangerous<\/a>\u00a0and unpredictable.<\/p>\n

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The World Has Already Ended Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don’t know it yet. “You say the ocean\u2019s rising, Like I give a shit, You say the whole world\u2019s ending, Honey, it already did.” – All Eyes On Me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34009,16470,2569,141,150,288,638,33809],"class_list":["post-66270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alan-urban","tag-biodiversity-loss","tag-civilisation-collapse","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-extreme-weather","tag-pollution","tag-polycrisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66271,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66270\/revisions\/66271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}