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The next years are going to be fun… The world is burning while the fossil fuel industry is chugging along like everything is great as long as you buy enough co2 credits.

I’m scared in what kind of world my children will have to live in…

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it bizarre it doesn't bother me that much about what happens to humanity at this point? Scientists have seen this happening decades ago and have implored companies and governments to make changes, only to land in deaf ears... so in a way, we saw this coming and didn't care. We kinda had it coming. What I really worry for are the innocent animals, fauna, and flora that will definitely be affected by this. It upsets me even just a change in temperature can mean life or death for some species. I just hope we can still slow this down enough for them to be able to adapt too 😥

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m sorry you feel that way, but I get where you’re coming from.

Zoom out a little though and it’s consequences are war, famine, and desecration.

If not the human suffering, consider eons long chains of biology that’ll be wiped off the face of the earth as climates shift quicker than their ability to adapt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, for sure. There will be battles for resources that would probably dwindle exponentially. There will be loads of suffering throughout. I've worried so much for years and have made my own contributions to reduce my carbon footprint - recycled and reused as much as I can, not buying a car, among others - and it's so exhausting to keep caring when the main perpetrators get to keep doing it abundantly relatively scot-free. At this point, it's just easier for my own mental health to choose my battles and to choose which one to worry more and hopefully help in that aspect. This is one of the main reasons I've decided to become childfree; it's just cruel to bring life to an uncertain world where the bad guys run rampant.

[–] LordUsername 4 points 2 years ago

Choosing to have kids at this point is just choosing to live through Grave of the Fireflies. No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You could always berth an army of eco warriors?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ha. That will be wiped off? We are actively watching a mass extinction occur. It's not going to happen. It already is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I remember watching a clip from “The Network” where Jeff Daniel’s is interviewing an expert on climate change. It was when it was too late - and the expert lore or less said so.

It struck me as prescient - that despite all the warnings we’d be shocked when it came and it was irreversible.

Tbh it came sooner than I expected.