you ignore it until you can't anymore
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I hate this messaging because it's so myopic and self centered. There's no call to action and no appeal other than to yourself and your immediate future.
"It" is going to destroy everything I love? No, the system that produced much of what I love is destroying itself. Can I personally stop that? No. Can we collectively change the inevitable outcome that the post describes? No.
Those are the facts, now let's grow up and stop wallowing in our self pity. What can we do? What can we mitigate? Are there extreme measures that are possible today that can soften the landing for future generations?
"But my consumer choices don't blah blah blah..." fuck that, set an example. Stop eating meat, reduce your resource consumption, start caring for the natural environment in your reach. If such simple stuff is too great a sacrifice then just off yourself and make things easier for the rest of us.
If you're upset that a handful of corporations are 90% culpable for this, make them 99%. Then never stop pointing that out to others sharing your sacrifice. Find strength in that unity.
Things will change, it won't be an uphill battle forever. Any apocalyptic events will overturn the human systems that incited them; the human population will be culled to levels that can be sustained. You have the power to guide that no matter how apathetic and powerless you feel.
If you're upset that a handful of corporations are 90% culpable for this, make them 99%. Then never stop pointing that out to others sharing your sacrifice. Find strength in that unity.
And importantly, realize that corporations are not 100% responsible. So many people think it's 100% corps and that their individual actions, even in rich consumerism driven countries have no impact
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You want to wall off Victoria and Queensland?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sorry I skimmed it and read New England in America, because we also had a very wet early summer. Plus everything is always about America, right?! Please just ignore me.
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
The harrowing thing for me about "Don't Look Up", was that you couldn't tell if it was about climate change, or Covid, or basically any other far-right political denialism.
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At least one of the conservatives I know believes the dinosaurs died in a great biblical flood. This is powerful "you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into" energy.
We need to do a better job teaching kids physics. Imo since trump laid off so many scientists my thought would be to send them all to schools and churches as guest speakers for science.
wrote last edited by [email protected]What we actually need is classes on critical thinking - basic formal and informal logic as a mandatory part of school cirriculums at whatever age it is appropriate.
We also need to move away from the hierarchical top-down mode of education we use today.
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Okay but you can control your own actions. Don't you want to be better than all the sheeple? Or do you want to be bad because they're just as bad?
I'm already vegetarian, so I'm controlling my actions just fine. I just also see how angry everyone gets when they find out that I don't eat meat, despite it having basically no impact on them.
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Good for you?
No, that isn't good for me. That's my whole point. It isn't good for anybody!
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If they posted the temperature in Farenheit maybe they could get Americans on board
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If they posted the temperature in Farenheit maybe they could get Americans on board
"ayo 50 degrees? that just about autumn weather! these damn europeans are stoopid!"
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The harrowing thing for me about "Don't Look Up", was that you couldn't tell if it was about climate change, or Covid, or basically any other far-right political denialism.
I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
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I work with a lot of conservatives (the American kind that deny anthropological climate change and anti-vax/mask). They aren’t ignoring it anymore - though there are plenty that do because stupid. They’re just handwaving it away as some natural cycle of the sun and “there’s nothing we can do about it.”
They just engage in whatever mental gymnastics that avoids the thousands of years of collective scientific knowledge and analysis that says they’re wrong so they won’t a) get the stink of being a liberal tree-hugger on them, b) be inconvenienced by any required effort or sacrifice on their part to help mitigate it, c) have to pay a single cent for it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]All the boomers who retired in Florida are paying the price.
Love watching videos where they cry about their special assessments due to insurance spikes exposing how under funded their HoAs among other idiotic behaviours they are known to engage in as "property owners"
There is some justice in the world.
Social security Queens ain't rich enough to take these hits... They assumed they were in the club
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There are many hills to die on, but I have standards and those standards are important. Just pick a better word next time and move on, it’s not that difficult.
How about you just ignore it and move on, instead of asking everyone to pander to your standards? Not to be rude, but no one on the internet gives a shit about your standards, and no one is going to try to comply with them. Use the downvote button if you don't like the word
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"It's only going to get worse."
That's the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren't intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.
It's looking more and more like we're a failed experiment.
It's not about intelligence, it's about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn't an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.
It's not about the species being "stupid", that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
Let's not forget they were all, and still are, shitting their organs out on horse dewormer
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I got a ''low air quality'' alert on my phone. I live in the middle of nowhere. But I can't see the mountains from all the ash in the sky. This is no longer novel to me.
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I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
I don't get that criticism. Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful. I mean look at Bong Joon-Ho's movies. They are all extremely on the nose. It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
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I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
The ending is what really got me.
They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
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I don't get that criticism. Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful. I mean look at Bong Joon-Ho's movies. They are all extremely on the nose. It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful
Right, but it can also be obnoxious to beat over the head with the same concept over and over. ]
It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
I don't know why you ascribe smugness to it, someone that watches movies for a living is obviously gonna prefer films that don't waste time telling the audience something more than necessary.
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If they posted the temperature in Farenheit maybe they could get Americans on board
Yes, but even in the US I can recognize that 50°C is literally halfway to boiling (from freezing).
... You're right though, it still took longer to get an intuitive sense than 122°F would have.
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It's not about intelligence, it's about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn't an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.
It's not about the species being "stupid", that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing
If I put my hand on a stove. It hurts. I learn not to do that again.
If I live in a region that has been controlled by a specific party for generations and life sucks, and I keep voting for that party, then I'm stupid.
If I'm suffering the effects of global warming after professionals have spent decades telling me it was happening, and I choose to continue ignoring it, I'm stupid.
You're trying to absolve ADULTS from the responsibility of self-education. Of learning from experience.
There's a lot of misinformation out there. But adults shouldn't be waiting for someone to tell them what to think. It's their responsibility to learn from obvious mistakes. There are plenty of people in history that have left organized religion because they learned, through experience, that it was bullshit. That means anyone that isn't willfully ignorant can do the same.
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
So they ignored it until they couldn't anymore.
