We must act on what is

oop. crawls out of my red lotus cave

+ bonus:

i also dont get the sentiment people have towards bloodbending when they say its unfair that an ability created by a victim of oppression is criminalised. the writers did hama dirty, but in fantasy worlds, any power that gives someone the ability to enforce their will over someone elses tends to be frowned upon and regulated.

It. Is. Time.

I know people will freak out from seeing Korra portrayed like that (understandably - frankly, intentionally). However, what I'm really noting here is that they said this happened "long ago" where their "ancestors weren't" prepared and "the Avatar let us down. Like apparently, we now have confirmation that there WILL be a very long timeskip between Korra's era and storyline in Seven Havens.

Korra clearly has grey hair. It's difficult to determine if this clip actually has flashback type accuracy (probably not imo), but at least it suggests that Korra wasn't extremely young when... whatever happened ~happened. It suggest Korra would be 50-70 years old imo.

Also just the fact that it's now confirmed there's been several generations of timeskip + context of how people like Janet Varney talk about this series, it makes me consider if not only did Korra not actually turn evil and destroy the world during this "apocalypse", she might also have not even died and lived somewhere in hiding for years after. Just a total loose shot here.

A few other clues about how Korra's world developed:

These are the images shown while the voice over says the modern haven city needs to be prepared because "long ago our ancestors weren't prepared, and the Avatar let us down". The cities that seem to be experiencing the cataclysmic event already seem to have haven-like structures / the other one seems to possibly be republic city (which tbh at this point, is like, a day in the life of RC).

Set in a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm, a young Earthbender discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra. In this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity's destroyer, not its savior.