You'd think this would be obvious and yet...
At this point I'm pretty sure we're going extinct.
Yes, and this almost happened in 2012 except we got very lucky and the flare wasn't facing towards us https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm
Amazing that the press continues to frame it as a question to be honest.
Gathering evidence starts with having a hypothesis.
Consider how quickly USSR developed after the revolution. It went from an agrarian society to being the first in space while doing most of the work in WW2. USSR accomplished a century's worth of capitalist development in a few decades.
I'm a Marxist-Leninist, I believe that the means of production should be owned by the workers and that the purpose of work is to produce things we all need to meet our collective needs.
Capitalism is a dead end ideology which leads to concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority by design, and this minority of oligarchs exploits the rest of the people to subsidize their lavish lifestyle.
Furthermore, any system based around constant growth and consumerism is fundamentally incompatible with our continual survival as a species. We need a system that strives for sustainable use of our resources.
Literally every single billionaire.
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The fires in Quebec are raging in tree plantations that get counted as carbon offsets.
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Yeah, I've definitely noticed this to be a prevalent problem in academia. People will often use sophistry to make it sound that their point is more profound than it really is. Reading through such flowery language to identify the gist of what's actually being said is extremely exhausting.