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Message Log 65, 10/01/2051 - JEWL 3-1-2

Dear humans of 2021. You are about to enter the darkness. How long you stay and whether you can leave will be determined by your ability to accept change. Change will occur in either direction, but this is the point in the story where you decide which path to take.

From climate catastrophe to pandemic, to the underlying political breakdown, to the regressive attitudes spreading around the world, this is the beginning of a new Dark Age. The decline of the West is central to this.

Decades of progress will be undone in the span of a few years. You will continue to spiral dangerously out of control until a leader recognizes this and declares the climate crisis a war-style emergency.

If you don't fix this, conflicts will become more intense as the planet dies, the animals die, and nature's resources dwindle. Fascisms and authoritarianism of various shades will emerge. Predatory elites will profit from it all, just as they did with Covid.