you ignore it until you can't anymore
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I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I'm tired of being reminded of this ten times over when I feel the most powerless to stop it than I've ever felt in my life. Now more than ever, all I see is a neighboring government undoing the little progress that we've made in the past decades I've spent worrying. I no longer see the way out like I used to. This only makes me feel miserable.
I no longer see the way out like I used to.
Don't worry, the next step is not even caring about it.
Is it worse for the world? Yes.
Is it easier on you, personally? Absolutely.
Regards for like 30 years people kept saying I worry too much. I could never let go. Never. Then something broke a few months ago or smth.
And this is what I look like now.
Apathy is the greatest weapon of the oppressor. It fucking got me. Don't let it get you, if possible.
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I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.
We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.
Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.
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Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of "protecting" people who don't really mind?
I think about 5% of the time it's someone who's actually affected, and 95% of the time it's performative moralising. Of course there's no way of telling which time is which...
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I no longer see the way out like I used to.
Don't worry, the next step is not even caring about it.
Is it worse for the world? Yes.
Is it easier on you, personally? Absolutely.
Regards for like 30 years people kept saying I worry too much. I could never let go. Never. Then something broke a few months ago or smth.
And this is what I look like now.
Apathy is the greatest weapon of the oppressor. It fucking got me. Don't let it get you, if possible.
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Possibly the only good idea ever conceived by Bill Gates was to release fine chalk dust into the upper atmosphere. We could even attach delivery systems to passenger jets so they release the dust at 30,000 feet which is cruising altitude, so this is done automatically with every flight. Chalk dust is non-toxic and even helps some plants grow. But leftists and "indigenous groups" (aka leftist groups wearing a mask) complained about it being a bad idea.
If we can't terraform Earth, how the hell do we ever move off-world and colonize other planets? This is the easiest world we will ever get to terraform and if we can't do it here, we sure as hell won't do it anywhere else.
Chalk dust is non-toxic, but it's not safe to inhale in large quantities.
Adding calcium carbonate to soil increases its alkalinity and fucks with trees.
This is a good example of a simple, easy to understand solution to a complex problem that's completely wrong. It's the opposite concept to KISS. Terraforming is not simple or easy to understand because of the possible side effects.
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I was dimly aware that Norway can be warm in the summers, but for the northern parts of it to hit 34.3C is just batshit. That's hotter than most days in Singapore.
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I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I'm tired of being reminded of this ten times over when I feel the most powerless to stop it than I've ever felt in my life. Now more than ever, all I see is a neighboring government undoing the little progress that we've made in the past decades I've spent worrying. I no longer see the way out like I used to. This only makes me feel miserable.
I've been there man. What I can say that helped me is doing things myself. It's small, and people are quick to say what's the point, but I get immensely satisfaction whenever I turn off fossil fuels to another appliance. I rarely drive now, I bike, I do any little thing I can. Will it save everyone? Probably not. But I'm doing what I can, and it helps me.
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Yeah, this battle is, unfortunately, lost. It is now too late to stop what is coming. Keep in mind that the effects we're witnessing are from emissions 10-20 years ago, and the global total continues to rise and will likely continue for the foreseeable future. If you haven't yet, don't procreate. If you have already, don't continue to.
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yeah, higher temperature makes everything more wet in general. consider the tropical areas near the equator, they're the wettest regions on earth.
they’re the wettest regions on earth.
Not according to your mom last night.
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It's more that "meat free Monday" will do nothing whatsoever, the problem is pollution from large corporations
So you're saying demand for meat will fall by exactly 0%? The local grocery store will have exactly the same number of people buying the same amount of meat?
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So you're saying demand for meat will fall by exactly 0%? The local grocery store will have exactly the same number of people buying the same amount of meat?
Consumer demand does not, in fact, make a dent on emissions. Corporations buying from each other is what does.
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Consumer demand does not, in fact, make a dent on emissions. Corporations buying from each other is what does.
Consumer demand never makes a dent on emissions? So if everyone in your city became a vegan overnight, the grocery store would keep on buying the same amount of meat and letting it rot on the shelves?
Wow, I should start selling bridges to grocery store managers
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Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of "protecting" people who don't really mind?
I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don't use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that's a hot take though
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I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.
We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.
Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.
Watching that sub collapse from the influx of people realising something was wrong with the world always amused me, I tried my best to stop people blowing up over Sam Carana posts, doomsday apocalypse predictions, the newest fad political posturing/doomsday devices.
There was a lot of great information there; it was pretty much the only reason I kept reddit around. Thanks for modding.
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Yeah, this battle is, unfortunately, lost. It is now too late to stop what is coming. Keep in mind that the effects we're witnessing are from emissions 10-20 years ago, and the global total continues to rise and will likely continue for the foreseeable future. If you haven't yet, don't procreate. If you have already, don't continue to.
That doesn't mean we should stop trying for a better world however.
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New England North South West seems confusingly named.
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We’re trapped on a burning planet with superstitious dictators committing holocausts in broad daylight and there are forum mods/admins who find it within themselves to stop you from advocating online to ixnay a few fascists or billionaires
wrote last edited by [email protected]Reddit is a dumping ground of hate generated by AI eating fuel to wreck the planet further
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Soooo many other words, just pick a better one.
Seriously why are you acting like using words is so frigging hard.
There’s so much worse shit going on in the world as is the entire point of the discussion and this is the hill your choosing to die on here? Mere inconvenience of learning to just use words?
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Consumer demand never makes a dent on emissions? So if everyone in your city became a vegan overnight, the grocery store would keep on buying the same amount of meat and letting it rot on the shelves?
Wow, I should start selling bridges to grocery store managers
wrote last edited by [email protected]One, that's not a realistic scenario. Two, companies make more money by selling to other companies, not us. This whole thing of blaming the regular people for excess waste and pollution was a ploy by companies to get away with it.
During the pandemic, even tho nobody was using their cars, the amount of pollution from fossil fuels didn't change at all. It was statistically insignificant. That's enough proof to me that blaming us for the sins of unregulated industries is stupid.
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I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don't use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that's a hot take though
speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.
