I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

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    10 months ago

    We’ve endured far worse things than this before and we’ll do it again and again. We’re good at that.

    Let me be clear, we as the species Homo Sapiens, have not experienced catastrophic climate change on the level and speed we are now. We have also not lived through a mass extinction on the level we are now. Though we did live through an extinction of megafauna at the end of the last ice age, that is far different than a full scale mass extinction that is also decimating tiny animals like insect populations and the like, which is far more disturbing.

    We really can’t say for sure how bad things are going to get before we (hopefully) get old and die but it is likely going to be very bad.

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      10 months ago

      Oh yeah, on the level of Extinction Events, we haven’t survived one yet. Hopefully we will in some way, shape or form (hopefully as ourselves), but you never know. That’s why i said, or tried to say, “worry, but don’t claw your hair off because of it just yet”. Because if that punch is coming, there’s no sense in worrying about it–better to brace for it as best we can, you know?

      When i said “we’ve survived worse before” tho, it was in response to the OP’s worries of the state of the United States. The question itself was kinda broad and they didn’t really get specific, but at the same time…i highly doubt this is the worst it’s gotten for the States (or any country, really) besides in the area of climate change, but that’s not exclusive to the US, that’s everwhere.