How are you coping with climate change?
How are you coping with climate change?
This has been a doozy of a year. And it's the best year so far blah blah. So how are you all coping? Does it hit anyone else like a bolt of lightning that probably I - we - won't die of old age?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw
I found this video to be helpful in putting things in perspective. Basically, despite all the news, we are making progress and it is a priority. Technology is improving really fast to the point where renewable energy is actually the more economical choice.
A lot of companies are actually making an effort to implement more green policies. I work for a tech company, and a lot of discussions revolve around energy efficiency and performance per watt.
Remember that climate change activists want to make the world seem much worse than it is. That's their "job" after all - to raise awareness and attention. It doesn't mean what they are saying isn't true, just that you should view it as them putting a negative lens on it.
Personally, I worry about many things, but not really climate change. With most issues there conflict between two groups. But I think most people generally think climate change is a real thing, even if they disagree on its priority.
It already is worse. The number of extinctions in the last few years alone is heartbreaking.
I don’t think that activists want it to seem worse than it is. I think they’re trying to wake us up from sleepwalking collectively into disaster. The ones I listen to seem pretty measured.
I found this video to be helpful in comforting me. It minimized all those scary truths those pesky scientists keep bringing up. Once you find just the right take you can be on the bandwagon but with zero responsibility and accountability!
This is why the moderates will be first.
I didn't say that.
My point was that saying "nothing is getting better and everything is terrible" is doing a great disservice to all the hard work of people actually working on solving this issue. There's certainly a lot of work that still needs to be done.
There are three lenses on how to look at the world:
- The world is awful.
- The world is much better.
- The world can be much better.
These need not be mutually exclusive and you are limiting yourself if you only focus on the world through one of these lenses.
I should minimize the hard hard work and message of the others to protect the feelings I think they have. Then, I should create a strawman argument.
No, apathetic moderate. You're the greater obstacle.
Eh. I do what I can where I can. It's something I'm trying to get better at accepting about myself. No use sressing about things I have little influence over.
Given all the arguments I've been in online, I'd hardly describe myself as "apathetic" though. :P
If this is relevant to you then you know how and why I wrote it.
We all want happiness. In my pursuit a lot of people handed me individual copies of pieces to their individual puzzles. Sometimes they fit into my puzzle. Often, they don't fit today but months or years later they do. Please receive this message with the anonymous love and individual humility I intend: I don't know you. It's two shots in the dark.
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I have, express, and defend many perspectives that the online mob rejects, sometimes violently, which was psychologically harmful to me. For many years I devalued myself and had fear associated with sincere expression.
Eventually, I learned through a memes at first then research and perspectives of others, that I've very strong senses for the principles of truth and justice. I had a conscious beginning, a basic explanation for my actions.
My actions changed very little. But, my self-worth was no longer based upon the shallow opinions of a mob, instead upon an immutable ideology. I was no longer fearful of the mob's judgement even though my ideology was in its infancy. I needed more facts, to understand what great persons in history or modern experts said, and time to reason how it applies society, my family, and myself. I had a plan to be someone I could respect, particularly when saying, "I don't know... yet. Thank you for pointing out that I need to do better in that way."
The hardest part was knowing I couldn't do it alone and had no idea who'd help. It was 100% paradox: a leap of faith.
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If you can relate to this sense of valuing truth and justice sometimes to your own detriment, then do you also overly value repetition and routine, dislike change?
Dude, don't waste your energy on this guy.
I'd hardly describe myself as "apathetic" though
I believe your heart's in the right place. I'll write a sincere response, though it's deep meta.
Given all the arguments I've been in online
If you ever feel like that alone isn't the best thing for you then the rest of my message could apply.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
The individual who wrote the line above called it the "great stumbling block in (our) stride toward freedom".
I do what I can where I can.
One thing you could choose to do is read his words in the context he wrote them, think about how the themes apply to almost everyone today, then target specific individuals with good questions.