Thread by @SteB777

I've been saying this for a long time. Now the insurers are waking up to it. That is, the climate crisis is a serious threat to capitalism. They way I put it, is climate will strangle economic growth and the financial system will crash.

1/theguardian.com/environment/20…

I am just baffled by why more don't see it. My point that our civilization has got a maximum of 10-15 years before our civilization with business as usual BaU implodes - is based on that being approximately how long capitalism has got left with BaU.
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The proviso being, with BaU. That is what will destroy our civilization, trying to carry on with BaU. I am not saying it will happen, in 15 years, but within that. Could be this year, the next few years, probably around the middle.
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If we transition to a cooperative, non-competitive society, not all out pursuing economic growth, but working together for the common good, there is no need for our civilization to collapse.
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The reason for this, would be if we transition to a cooperative society, even if the current lifestyle becomes impossible, people will work together to what is possible, sustainability. It won't implode, with people working to an impossible future.
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I'm utterly baffled by those who think the present system is going to last to the end of the century and beyond. Current trends do not support this delusion.
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Once again, change is coming whether we like it or not. I have been saying this far longer than @GretaThunberg. I can't say, exactly what Greta meant by it, but this is what I meant.
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Or as @KevinClimate says:

“There are now no non-radical futures* The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.”

8/bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/04/18/no-…

This is the choice. Either we radically change our societies, and have a soft landing, or we trying carrying on with BaU, and our system will collapse, and a huge number of people will starve. It is that stark.
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There is no, we can have our cake and eat it option, where technology allows us to carry on with BaU, that is a group delusion. Anyone who believes this, is in denial of reality.
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Some time back, 20+ years ago, it might have been rational to believe that technology would save us. But look at the reality, Trump and the Tech Bros, has taken us, driving us into the ground. That is the empirical reality, not a techno utopia.
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Just on a side note, I did point out 25 years and far more ago, that this techno-optimist view of the future, was self-delusion, and impossible. Now the empirical evidence supports my criticisms of techno-optimism, as we have Tech Bro suicide.
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