• candyman337
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    221 month ago

    My biggest fear is climate change tbh, trump, facism, and capitalism are terrible, but the biggest threat to the future of humanity is climate change

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Sometimes you can be a little self-centered. While climate change is overwhelming, a huge catastrophe for society and humanity’s future, how much will it directly affect you? Most of us will really only see more of the same: more severe and unstable weather, modified seasons, times where food and power are more expensive. You can handle that.

      Sometimes it’s ok not to think too much about the statistics telling the bigger story or the news detailing the more extreme effects. As long as you know they exist

      What can you do about the things that directly affect you? What can you do about the things in your control?

      • candyman337
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        21 month ago

        It is very possible in our lifetime we will see famine and fresh water shortage.

  • @[email protected]
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    351 month ago

    It’s difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that “things were better in my youth,” because things objectively were better in my youth.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don’t now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn’t go outside when I was a kid.

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      81 month ago

      Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn’t give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 month ago

    The world’s healing progresses much more slowly than the individual’s. We have hundreds of years of colonialism and ecological devastation to heal from and that shit won’t happen overnight. You are part of the world and your healing makes the world better. Focus on what you can do and do that. Trying to take responsibility for the whole mess will destroy you, it’s out of your hands.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      I genuinely believe there is 0 chance we will ever heal the earth. Collapse of Earths natural systems seem inevitable.

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        1 month ago

        You don’t heal the earth. It’s like meditation, you don’t force the mindset, the mindset comes to you and you can’t control it, but you can learn to respect it for what it is.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        The Earth is huge and doesn’t really care about us. We disappear, in a hundred years nothing’s left except some exotic isotopes in a thin geological layer.

    • nkat2112
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      21 month ago

      This was beautifully stated. Thank you for your wholesome response, VampirePenguin.

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      61 month ago

      Right, and this is just one of those times where the scab was itchy so we scratched it off. We re-opened the gouge and are bleeding again. The question is whether the healing is still happening, with a little backtracking, or whether we’re exposing ourselves to gangrene

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      I had ten years more WW3 is about to happen at any time than you did. We saw Northern Ireland become a peaceful place after such a long time like a war zone, the Middle East calmed down after always being a warzone somewhere or other. We watched the Berlin Wall come down in ’89 with such optimism, the USSR broke up peacefully and Europe started to be a more interesting place, now these borders with Russia are bloody dangerous. Somehow there’s a new and improved ‘Cold War’ that isn’t actually a secret at all, a real war hiding behind words like conflict, the holy lands are all to hell again, my god we are useless at this peace thing - the rich twats just can’t make enough money unless we’re all suffering obviously.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    70s and 80s too

    this is happening to everyone.

    Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.

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      Oh man I’d prefer to not compare myself or my problems to active war zones. Lifes rough no matter the place but I have plenty of opportunity to make good on it. That may or may not be the case for folks in Ukraine or Iran… and then I think of Pakistan…fuck

      Edit: fat finger spelling

    • @[email protected]OP
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      161 month ago

      Like I said, I’m improving. It’s the world falling apart around me that’s making me feel it’s a bit superfluous to be achieving mental stability at this point in life.

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        21 month ago

        Glad to hear it. I think it’s common for scholars and activists to ignore self-care, but it’s not superfluous.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 month ago

    I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.

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      61 month ago

      Same here. I’ve been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.

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      171 month ago

      Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren’t a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.

      Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It’s what you can do.

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      31 month ago

      Thanks for the attempt, but all I see are “the 17 sustainable development goals” where the Trump administration wants to take us backwards

      Hopefully I’m just being us-centric and I understand our current issues may be partly obscured by long term trends and global statistics. However we also have an outsized effect on the world and those are some of the first places cut or corrupted, changed from achievements to points of instigation