The United States has been pumping so much groundwater that the ground is beginning to split open across southwestern parts of the country for miles on end.
I get that, and I do my part,… but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that’s the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they’re 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It’s industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
This is exactly it. We can’d do things individually that make enough of a dent. I admire the people who truly do care, research, put time effort into trying to contribute what they can, but unfortunately a lot of people claiming to be green are taking very superficial actions. They do little to no research and purchase greenwashed products which make those same corporations contributing to the problem even more rich, and also harm the earth even more while using those products because a lot of them are actually worse to begin with. They want to feel good about themselves and in control while also doing very little if nothing. That’s why I dislike the attitude of toxic positivity and acting like if we just make a plan it will all be fine. It allows people to remain willfully ignorant and feel good about nothing and makes it so it’s even harder to enact real, meaningful change. The whole system needs to change, it’s a global problem, and we all need to come together to fight this but we can’t stop arguing online over the most simple things. With all that, and seeing more and more evidence we’re crash landing past the point of making a change that will matter is extremely discouraging, and I think it’s okay to feel that way. Change begins with facing the reality of things.
I’ve adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .
Sometimes it’s hard not to feel really discouraged about humanity when it seems like we ruin everything we touch.
Try to do better than the average human: Try minimizing your personal footprint, participate in some nature related NGO, etc.
Only by acting can we escape this feeling of depression and discouragement 💪.
I get that, and I do my part,… but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that’s the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they’re 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It’s industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
This is exactly it. We can’d do things individually that make enough of a dent. I admire the people who truly do care, research, put time effort into trying to contribute what they can, but unfortunately a lot of people claiming to be green are taking very superficial actions. They do little to no research and purchase greenwashed products which make those same corporations contributing to the problem even more rich, and also harm the earth even more while using those products because a lot of them are actually worse to begin with. They want to feel good about themselves and in control while also doing very little if nothing. That’s why I dislike the attitude of toxic positivity and acting like if we just make a plan it will all be fine. It allows people to remain willfully ignorant and feel good about nothing and makes it so it’s even harder to enact real, meaningful change. The whole system needs to change, it’s a global problem, and we all need to come together to fight this but we can’t stop arguing online over the most simple things. With all that, and seeing more and more evidence we’re crash landing past the point of making a change that will matter is extremely discouraging, and I think it’s okay to feel that way. Change begins with facing the reality of things.
I’ve adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .