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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by parineum on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:32AM (#31270967)
They're not talking specifically about climate change. Doomsayers have always existed, warranted or not. Previously, it seemed inevitable that the cold war would end in a massive nuclear exchange and yet here we are. That was a very real threat, just like climate change, but it was avoided. We also have AI/Singularity doomsayers right now and, previously, Bird flu, SARS, Ebola, etc. and where the doom actually came, humanity has survived just fine.

Through all of that, everything has gotten better.

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by rendall on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:59AM (#31271125)
Speaking as a former doomsayer, people like my former self who are committed to the "everything is terrible" outlook really dislike hearing that it's not true. For me, I was committed because my life sucked, and it was much easier to point at objective, outer reasons than to do the hard work of digging in and digging myself out. I was pretty smugly insufferable. I still am, just, from a different perspective.
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