Science is cool. Even if the news ain’t great.
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"Karashta, you don't want kids? You'd make a great dad."
I've been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I've seen crumbling around me since my teens.
People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I'd seen and read.
Somehow, "I told you so," doesn't, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.
If you still think you'd make a great dad, there's lots of kids that already need one.
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Our sole, shared environment is COMMUNal.
Market Capitalism requires infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world of finite resources. Its very nature is as impossible as one pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
IF humanity cared about its own future, it doesn't btw, we'd be focused on shrinking humanity's footprint significantly over the next few generations to find homeostasis/equilibrium with this world, the only world we will ever encounter as a species that is naturally hospitable to us.
But that's a non starter. Not only will we not do that, but we will refuse to so much as temper our reckless growth/metastasis, even in the face of oblivion.
It's darkly hilarious how many unwashed peasants, losers of this rigged global economy, still RAGE against the concept of an economy that focuses on having everyone's basic needs met sustainably, because there would be no room for the super yachts and private jets they would never be allowed aboard anyway under such an economy.
We're literally gambling with our own extinction, and losing, in the name of "but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step!" It's the height of pathetic.
I largely agree with you but I also think advocates of radical change like this need to create a working model of what this actually looks like and implement it somewhere before people will trust that these ideas can help them. Obviously this is very difficult within the context of modern society but I don’t think it’s surprising that most people are wary of radical political and economic change.
I don’t think people are as worried about one day being rich as they are about utopian charlatans wrecking the economy and dropping them into poverty. There is a lot of propaganda that works to heighten this fear as well.
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Honestly I'm over how fucked we are at this point.
Will it be hell? Yeah. But every 0.1 degrees we prevent will help. We can't stop fighting because we are not the only people suffering. There are way way way more people that are terrified and are fighting really damn hard. We should never abandon those people. Then we are just bending over to the big polluting corporations. Every 0.1 degrees can save so many damn lives. Humanity WILL survive. Most of is in the west will. Giving up and letting the people in the worst parts of the world rot and burn is not something we should do.
Sorry but i really fucking hate the doomer comments here about giving up.
Scroll down. I'm still going to do what I can. But I'm resigned to the fact that, odds are, it's beyond hope.
I'm glad I decided to start traveling while I still can
Yep. Have fun while you can. I mean I'm going to still do what I can do, vote for the right people but... At this point... It's like we are a person still diligently showing up to all his chemotherapy appointments despite the fact he's resigned to it not working in the end.
Yep. The people in power are the people in power precisely because they only think about what's in it for them. That is what humanity rewards and elevates: selfishness. Oh I'm sorry, they rebranded selfishness into a positive trait: "rational self-interest." what a lovely Orwellian flourish.
Humans that consider how their actions may negatively effect others are not. Only practicing sociopaths are permitted to steer this ship, and wouldn't you know it, they're steering us right into oblivion for short term ego score returns.