{"id":7779,"date":"2023-07-31T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:08:20","slug":"slow-motion-apocalypse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/slow-motion-apocalypse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow-motion apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have stopped sharing links to wildlife being cooked to death in the oceans, or catastrophic polar melting, or the fact we are in what future generations will regard as the early months of World War 3, etc. to Facebook. Even so, the slow-motion apocalypse (a phrase I coined and began using in 2013, although others independently did the same, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2013-11-22\/how-to-reverse-a-slow-motion-apocalypse\/\">some even earlier<\/a>) continues its relentless approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a little surprised that World War 3 hasn\u2019t officially started yet. My entire youth, the threat of Communist expansion was like a black cloud on the horizon, and the threat of nuclear war was ever-present. But Russia invades Ukraine, and the West can barely muster a strongly worded letter in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This does not bode well for Taiwan and Pakistan, but I have no input on any of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, sea life is being cooked to death in the oceans, and natural disasters and wet-bulb events are becoming more common on land. I assume the Republican death cult is still blaming homosexuals while simultaneously dismissing it as a hoax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Canada ever opens its borders to American refugees fleeing north from the climate crisis and the theofascist takeover of the South and the western flyover states, I think we should apply ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have stopped sharing links to wildlife being cooked to death in the oceans, or catastrophic polar melting, or the fact we are in what future generations will regard as the early months of World War 3, etc. to Facebook. 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