Now What? Now We “Learn to Live With” the Apocalypse

Welcome to the 2020s, Where the Plan Is There Is No Plan

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
9 min readJul 22, 2022

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Image Credit: Daniel Knox, Horsley Park Rural Fire Brigade

Now what? After the heatwaves stretching across the planet, Europe on fire, London burning, YACW — yet another Covid wave — our societies in profound disrepair, extremists and lunatics on the march, animals fleeing the killing temperatures towards the poles 16 feet per day, inflation spiking, harvests failing, water running dry. You might rightly be wondering. What’s the plan?

I have some bad news, and I have some worse news.

The plan is there is no plan. Now comes “learning to live with” the apocalypse.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s a cabinet minister saying it right out loud. Hey? The planet’s on fire? The city’s burning? The crops are failing? The water’s running out.

Learn to live with it.

Where have we heard that before? You know where. With Covid. How did that work out? I’ll come back to it. First, let’s talk about “learning to live with it.”

“Learn to live with it.” These are words that we’re going to become very, very familiar with. Covid was the first example — but it won’t be the last. “Learn to live with it” is a kind of code. It means a lot of things. We’ve given up — our leaders have, at least

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