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around 250 million years ago, was vastly worse than anything Late Capitalism will manage to do before it collapses. Nature regenerated (and continued evolving). "Nature ultimately eliminates anything that harms what it depends on." - Jag Bhalla, Scientific American, 7-12-13. There will be a vast, protracted orgy of destruction without any help from our puny capacities. All we have to do is get out of the way.

Some of the most "marginalized" people - the "savages" and near-"savages" of the "4th World" in the remoter parts of the world are the best equipped to outlive the Collapse and thrive. The resource extractors will no longer be invading their homes. It is the "mainstream", (techie)"with-it" people in the "developed" world who are the most pathetically helpless.

An exclusive focus on climate change ignores other biosphere degradation will undo Late Capitalism as well: topsoil destruction, deforestation/forest degradation, depletion/contamination of increasingly pressed fresh-water supplies, including aquifers. Then there is cyberwar. Great Depression 2.0 will slow biosphere degradation down a lot. If this is followed by race war instead of a widespread rising of working people, this will greatly hasten the Collapse.