While not an excuse to fuck up the planet more than we have had, we can pretty much turn it into a wasteland and still survive with modern technology it won’t be fun and it would cost many lives but realistically if you are living in a western country today you are both unfortunately and fortunately going to be shielded from most of it.
IDK, maybe.
Hypothesis:
1. Although we think its important we are tired of it because its always the same story. 2. Although we ACK the problem we want to avoid news about the imminent problem that we as individuals can not really act against.
But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.
Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN
https://www.drawdown.org/ https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
Yes... because we missed our chance to solve for this.
I get that humans on the whole will survive. But the "be the change you want to see in the world" type of feel goodery is complete bs. "You" are not the problem for climate change. Our politics are the problem and we seem determined to not solve that.
Don't be the change you want to see in the world, demand the change you want to see in your system. Don't rollover & accept defeat
Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster.
Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on?
For what its worth, I see some hope the last few years. Some people are doing something both on a scientific and sociological level. Things are finally moving, even if it is not yet enough.