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Funny I don’t see any mention of that on there.
But don’t fret the pollution, microplastics, and global warming have all but guaranteed an early death for billions.
Anti-civ implies it weakly, Desert, which advocates for primitivism and accelerationism, implies it strongly.
I might be of the controversial opinion that those are also bad.
The question is, which is worse? The average life expectancy being reduced from ~75 to ~60 by unaddressed industrial concerns, assuming we continue to fail to address them (admittedly not an unfair position, considering that we haven't addressed them adequately so far)? Or the average life expectancy being reduced from ~70 to ~30 by the complete collapse of all modern technology and the regression to a subsistence lifestyle?
That is, of course, assuming we aren't including the necessary initial population collapse from ~8 billion or so people to less than 1 billion. That death toll might skew the averages a little lower.
Opposing one disaster does not require embracing another.
. . . Desert doesn’t advocate for primitivism or accelerationism? No offence, but it’s clear you’ve not read it.
There is no primitivism, the world is too damaged for such a life and there is no accelerating what it already happening. If anything it argues for the slow crash, where humans desperately clutch at survival and try to hold onto normal as long as possible.
Desert is about what happens during and after ecological collapse from climate change. It’s about the formation of hubs of holdout and people living in the edges of authority and dead ecology.
It’s about understanding that there is no global revolution to save us, that we won’t invent the super technology to undo the damage, and instead gives a hypothetical look at how people might survive and adapt to a new world from an anarchist and historical perspective.
Man, I can literally quote Desert on both points.
A major point of several chapters in Desert is that primitivism is desirable because it prevent states, and inevitable because of the climate crisis.
That... that is literally the point of acceleration. To make something that is already happening go faster.
The book literally advocates for rolling back environmental protections.
It does more than propose a hypothetical, it also moralizes and advocates for surrender to the inevitable.