1966 children about the future [video]

Re:1966 children about the future [video] by Robotbeat on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:04PM (#21130632)

You shouldn't be downvoted. I understand your point: we may only be the 1 success to avoid global thermonuclear war out of 10 universes where such weapons were developed. And same may be true in other situations, as well.

However, this is a sort of fatalistic view that denies human agency (I guess I am fated believe in the fantasy that human agency exists as those who believe in that fantasy are more likely to take the actions necessary to survive in seemingly hopeless situations and I am descended from such people?).

We are the timeline that muddled through these collective action problems in the past. We have experience with doing so and were selected (in the evolutionary sense) out of all those possible human society timelines to have the ability to solve these collective action problems.

So let us choose act to solve these problems as if we were, indeed, capable of solving them. Even if part of us might think we can't.

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Re:1966 children about the future [video] by tempguy9999 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:20PM (#21130817)

I've been very critical of people here who are fatalistic, it didn't occur to me I was doing the same thing. You're right to pick me up on that.

My sad point is I've been trying to get stuff done on climate change for 20 years, and nothing got done because nobody cared. They didn't care because humans mainly don't care for anything beyond their local environment. The reasons for that are often down to lack of feeling of ability to change anything, which fatalism feeds into, but also down to, quite frankly, indifference. Mainly indifference. "Climate change? Whatever. Look, cheap flights!!"

I no longer care because that wore me down and made me ill. I accept that it's too late to avert climate catastrophe and, barring some miracle, I don't expect to live out my full life. I've come to terms with that.

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