2048. Too Far Gone?

Many years ago, I completely randomly created a group on FB called Project 2048. Today, I watched Seaspiracy, finally, which reiterated the threat of the oceans being emptied out by that date if we continued doing what we’re doing. The claim might be not literally true, but it’s still a strong indicator of the damage we’re causing.

Given the complexity of the economic web interwoven with the technological one that we’ve created, and give the level at which our lives, aspirations and emotions are now interlinked with the destruction of everything around us, and eventually us, I’ll admit I wonder often if it’s even possible to recover from it in a way that allows for our species’ continued existence. Each change seems massive, like a major sacrifice. Our individual sense of well-being and notion of rights and gain is deeply dependent on the continued production and extraction at the scale that we are at today, and that in turn linked to the inevitable collapse it has started to cause.

Are we just too far gone?