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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/happyluckystar on 2023-10-06 16:07:48.

No extinction event. But rather a large population reduction. Before our very eyes climate change is manifesting itself as an increase in the cost of living.

The capitalism machine marches on. Resources scarce? Pay more. Not enough money? You lost the galactic lottery.

Even if things got ridiculously bad literally tomorrow, there would be at least a few pockets of modern civilization surviving. And that can go on almost indefinitely by means of nuclear or geothermal power. Especially if these pockets of civilization amount to a very small global population. There would be enough fossil-fuel fertilizers to last millennia.

And don’t think that this is some kind of hopium where I think that I’ll end up in one of those pockets. I won’t. I’m not rich and I don’t have a degree in anything. It’s just where I see things going.

Watch the 50-year-old movie Zardoz. Even back then some people saw what was coming.