European colonisation has led to societal and ecological collapses all across the Global South over the centuries, culminating in what we know today as climate change or planetary systems collapse.
runaway environmental disruption triggered by capitalism’s industrial production and the Global North’s overconsumption has brought about the Sixth Mass Extinction and a halt to the life-giving thermohaline cycle. Earth’s possible futures are unable to support further human civilisations.
This is how Western civilisation ends:
“Homo sapiens, representing less than 0.01% of the planet’s living biomass, have destroyed 83% of wild mammals, 80% of marine animals, 50% of plants, and 15% of fish (Bar-On et al., 2018). Millions of years of biological evolution disappearing without a mention. 2020 marked the crossover point when, for the first time in history, the total mass of objects produced by man has exceeded the total mass of living matter on Earth. The global mass of plastic produced since its invention is now greater than the total mass of all terrestrial and marine animals combined (Elhacham et al., 2020).”
“The civilisation of separation is the desperate grasping of monopoly crisis capitalism, a display of obfuscating hegemonic power in its corporate death throes—an aeroplane stalling.”
