I started getting sad about climate change two years ago after seeing Planet Earth and many documentaries. I completely changed my lifestyle to reduce my part and put significant effort into it.

But seeing rich celebrities who use as much as a common man’s lifetime resources in a week or two, and others who barely put in any effort to combat it, and corporations fucking the entire planet for quarterly profits, barely any efforts towards fighting it even though we had known about its consequences 30-40 years ago, I get this feeling that my efforts are even worth it.

Slowly, I told myself that evolution failed itself by giving a bit more individual selfishness over community/species survival. Just like human beings, Earth’s time has started to end. Its death is inevitable. Everything should come to an end. Only if evolution had given a bit more thought to species survival, we would be in a much better place.

How do you all deal with this?

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    You deal with it by recognizing that you’ve been consuming wildly exaggerated accounts of the effects of climate change.

    It’s not going to end life on Earth. It’s not even going to end human civilization.

    Things are gonna be tough. Much like they’ve always been. You are evolved for difficulty, and you can handle it. So can other people. We’re going to get through this.