Tbh I think this shared experience kinda shows to me how we grow selfish as we grow up, we were quite aware that it will not affect us, but the thought of the world where we see so many people living ending one day like this haunted us, now we don’t care, we don’t care about anything that doesn’t affect us or people we know…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, when we are young, the world (and the universe at large) are part of our identity of self, but as we grow older we reduce our sense of "self" to just our own physical body and mind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I have seen some people having the inverse transition, blending with their environment and communities as they got older. Perhaps it's more like a cultural thing than a personal process. It's hard not to become selfish in our society model.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And that's the reason why we fuck our planet for profit. Climate change? Not our problem, the future generations can deal with it.

[–] fastandcurious 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tbh climate change has started to affect all of us who don’t have the luxury to always remain in a climate controlled environment, i am not looking forward to coming home at 2pm when the (feels like) temperature is 50C, and god knows what we will hit this year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, me too. But sadly most people love it. "Oh it's so warm, spring is finally coming", there wasn't even winter yet, bitch. "Aw it's really bad weather outside", it's the first rain in 4 months, you should be happy you dense fuckwit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Personally I've always been into space exploration stories (I mean, Star Wars isn't always exploration (I read the books, and some are about uncharted stuff a bit, like Outbound flight, and I do like Star Trek too) and kinda hope we're at that tech by then. I also really enjoy stuff like Schlock Mercenary and videos like https://youtu.be/ulCdoCfw-bY which while showing a bomb, also talks about a way to use black holes to outlive Red and White Dwarves, which normally should be the last source of light and heat in the universe. A colony properly using the energy black holes would still contain could potentially last trillion of years longer than all stars.