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How do you deal with depression about climate change?

I started getting sad about climate change two years ago after seeing Planet Earth and many documentaries. I completely changed my lifestyle to reduce my part and put significant effort into it.

But seeing rich celebrities who use as much as a common man’s lifetime resources in a week or two, and others who barely put in any effort to combat it, and corporations fucking the entire planet for quarterly profits, barely any efforts towards fighting it even though we had known about its consequences 30-40 years ago, I get this feeling that my efforts are even worth it.

Slowly, I told myself that evolution failed itself by giving a bit more individual selfishness over community/species survival. Just like human beings, Earth’s time has started to end. Its death is inevitable. Everything should come to an end. Only if evolution had given a bit more thought to species survival, we would be in a much better place.

How do you all deal with this?

socsa ,

By not having kids

slazer2au ,

This is going to get some upset

On an individual level, there is not much you can do. Because of that why let it get to you? If you do not effect the outcome it shouldn’t be on your radar.

MyNameIsRichard ,
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I console myself that I am getting older and won’t see the worst of it.

scrubbles ,
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and personally I’m choosing not to bring more life into the planet right before the large event.

Timely_Jellyfish_2077 OP ,

Yeah, I too decided to end my bloodline with me.

xmunk ,

Cynicism, trying to do what I can personally, voting and participating in politics, and just fucking hoping we’re over estimating the effects or that we’ll manage to come up with the political will to mitigate the worse effects.

Also, praying to Cthulhu that boomers hurry the fuck up and kick the bucket… at least the ones that aren’t cool.

Looking at Trump’s climate priorities (basically, burn as much coal as possible) and the people who support them fills me with disgust… it is as greedy and uncaring as our shitty late stage capitalism and I can’t comprehend existing with so little empathy or foresight. The deniers are essentially incomprehensible to me so I avoid them whenever possible and just hope they’ll die off faster than sane people.

bizarroland ,

I'm taking a nihilistic approach to it.

I turn off the lights when I leave a room. I'm conscientious about my water usage. I recycle.

When I find that a company is a mass polluter, I do everything in my power to not give them any of my money.

I'm doing my part.

The fact is every human being on the planet in their own personal circle could go carbon neutral and climate change would still happen because it is industrial processes and commercial shipping that are driving the great majority of carbon and methane release in the atmosphere.

It's not anything that you or I are doing, or rather, in the scheme of things what we are doing is negligible, easily absorbed by the natural cleaning processes of the planet like trees and algae and rain and time.

Our current system has incentivized pollution. There's no amount of personal choice that we as individuals can take to stop it.

What we need are politicians who acknowledge the issue and who override the objections of the vocal minority to fix them even at deleterious costs to the economy.

After all, can't have an economy when the world is dead.

mathemachristian ,

by worrying about the rampant militarization and progressively hawkish stance of nato with overt threat towards china and russia and how i could escape this hellhole with my family instead.

ssm ,
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View the end of humanity as a positive, the suffering machine will be over (at least until it re-evolves).

CanadaPlus ,

Well, I don’t really think our own species is likely to be ended by this one, but when it comes to death and loss, I think you’ve hit on the right perspective. Everything ends; things are finite in space and finite in time. If you like causality that’s actually a feature, not a bug, because everything happens all the time if there’s an infinite amount of it.

destroyamerica ,
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try and pay attention to China honestly. the seriousness they treat climate change with is the only thing that gives me hope that we’ll beat it. some examples from very recently:

China’s embrace of rail and EVs stalls holiday petrol demand

China adds new clean power equivalent to UK’s entire electricity output

Shanghai to fully switch to new energy buses, taxis by 2027

China is on track to reach its clean energy targets this month… six years ahead of schedule

China Makes $31 Billion Nuclear Push With Record Approvals

Brief summary of the last three months of Chinese decarbonization policy by David Fishman on Twitter (xcancel link)

flamingo_pinyata ,

Anger, knowing they will get what they deserve more quickly than I initially thought. I’m not thinking about rich celebrities, they are just a few people. There are so many regular people who refused to modify their lifestyle even a little to mitigate the problem. They will suffer alongside me and I find some solace in that.

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