That is btw deeply ingrained in Maoism and one reason why China isn't directly intervening with socialist revolutionary attempts, since they see overcoming the struggles and hardships as essential part that can't be substituted or helped with.

I was spiraling a bit as I was catching up on all the 2025 events and data regarding climate change. But here is the gist of it with some sources.

One new phenomenon we’ve never seen before is the stratopheric polar vortex completely changing its pattern; not just deviations, but entirely new "mixed-type" events. [1][2] This is causing two-digit temperature anomalies in the Arctic, disturbing the jet stream (which normally moves high- and low-pressure systems so they don’t remain stagnant). On top of that, the ice is melting more rapidly. [3]

So far, the prognosis was that by 2100 we’d be in territory where serious human life would barely be sustainable, limited to pockets of the world and marked by extreme difficulty. Think heavy temperature fluctuations, more intense seasonal extremes (summers getting unbearably hot, winters extremely cold), large-scale agriculture becoming impossible, cities unlivable due to heat (because of impervious surfaces), and cycles of drought followed by heavy monsoon rains and floods. Not to mention the collapse of insect populations and loss of undomesticated animals. [4][5]

Due to the polar vortex changes, the new projections are closer to 2050. We’re already past the +1.5°C target, and the new somewhat realistic goal is +2.8°C. [6] But there’s no way to achieve that under any capitalist mode of production. We can’t cleantech, greenwash, or paper-straw our way out of it. [7]

As long as climate action has to be profitable (which directly contradicts the fundamentals of capitalism), it won’t be possible. We need a science-based, data-driven, high-tech command economy that prioritizes social and net-zero circular industries. Literally, I see no other way out as long as profit and surplus value are in play. [8] We wouldn’t make it. Or maybe I’m just not creative enough to imagine one.

or to put it into serious liberal words, every child under 10 years old you see will not be dying of old age.

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It was never a fair fight

On my way to the Sentinelese island, we will see who has the last bite