I just distract myself by focusing on how my life is falling apart. Occasionally I'll distract myself from my crumbling life by stressing about how the world is burning.
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I'm mostly very curious how this all plays out. I'm also a bit worried, but there's not much I can do about that anyway, so whatever.
I wish I could travel a thousand years into the future and read all the history books.
I think these are very interesting times (and as we all know, it sucks to live in interesting times) with all the innovations and political desicions. Even the failures and missed opportunities. It's all very interesting.
What would I be dying of if not for old age?
Heat stroke due to rising temperatures. That is, if you forget to stay inside with the ac when it's 50 degrees celcius outside and go run a marathon instead (or you're allready very old or ill and susceptible to heat stroke)
Or drowning, because you're too stubborn to move away from the shore when sea levels rise enough to flood your house.
Or a falling tree on your head, because you don't believe in wheather forcasts and climate changed has caused more frequent wheather extremes.
There's plenty of unique challenges caused by climate change, but we can adapt to most if not all of them.
Or starving in the street as supply lines start to collapse because you aren't wealthy enough to inoculate yourself from the consequences of ecosystems collapsing.
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Yesterday I had a climate change anxiety attack. I came to the conclusion that despite wanting to have children, I shouldn't because the earth is currently dying underneath our feet. Watching outside my window, a cat I've been taking care of brought her litter of kittens to take shelter under my awning, and it had me feeling very bitter, that I would never know the blissful highs and devastating lows of parenthood. All the joy and pain and love that embodies raising a child, past generations have forfeit through destructive environmental/corporate/profit-centered policies.
I was able to calm myself down, oddly enough through a few memes I saw. one of which being an old cunieform tablet that had a transcription of a man from Assyria decrying how the world was falling apart back in 1200 BC. And the second, one of Neil Degrasse Tyson saying simply, "If we can geo-engineer other planets, we can certainly fix our own."
Made me feel a little more hopeful, that we could still prevent the worst of it, and perhaps fix what we couldn't prevent.
Still not sure about having kids though. If I still even can, with the level of microplastic in my testes, and PFAS everywhere else.
Kids are very adaptive. They will grow up in this changing world and it will be normal to them. They will grow up instinctively being able to deal with things that we will forever strugle with. Kids are amazing in finding their own solutions, even at a young age.
I think it is much more important to be financially and emotionally able to support a child. You should ask yourself if you are able to do that. You can get financial and emotional support from your environment, many people do that ("it takes a village to raise a child"), but you can't afford a full blown mental breakdown when you have kids.
I'm not trying to convince you to have children or not, just giving my two cents. There's probably plenty who disagree, especially in a thread like this, so feel free to ignore me.
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You won't even adopt?
If I were in a better place financially/emotionally, I ABSOLUTELY would.
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Solar panels to run the aircon.
Just have to hope no storm blows the house down.
Would like an electric car but it's out of my financial reach at this time, so keep the old car repaired and running.
Poorly. We basically didn't have a winter here in Chicago and the summer has been marked by severe storms.
I bike as much as possible instead of driving and lobby my local government for zoning reform.
You're a hero
Incredibly based, same here.