Last October, which seems so distant after this year, I wrote this.

The “Great Climate Awakening” is coming fast and it’s going to be wrenching, disruptive, and harsh. At some point this decade the number and size of the Climate Disasters will be undeniable. It will become obvious to everyone but the willfully blind that Global Warming is “really real” and “really bad”. People will finally start to pay attention to the crisis and internalize what it means to them, how it’s going to affect their lives directly.

When they do. When everyone under 40, finally understands how screwed they are and how their future has been stolen. The reaction is going to be extreme.

Watch one of those “the end of the world is coming, and everything falls apart” movies for clues about the societal effects on populations from knowing for certain that “life as we knew it” is over. When everyone, “all at once”, understands that we are going to at least 4C now, and just how bad that’s going to be, people are going to react in a big way.

Think suicides in huge numbers, casual murder, hedonism on epic scales, disengagement from the existing economic systems, and above all else, RAGE.

I think we are already starting to see disengagement from the existing economic system and epic hedonism. Soon enough will come the RAGE.

I think many of us assumed that a cultural awakening in the Climate Crisis would result in a political shakeup. That it would unify everyone because everyone would be able to see the danger.

The reality is going to be far messier and more complex. Climate Awakening might actually accelerate COLLAPSE instead of finally uniting us.