How do you deal with depression about climate change?
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?
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OP, can you provide us your witnessing of climate change? How has climate change impacted your personal life? What in your personal life has had to change because of climate change?
If it hasn't.. I think you have better things to think and worry about.
People only caring if it personally affects them is a part of how it got this bad in the first place.
New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat
caused by humans, top scientists calculated. Jun 4, 2024Cattle grazing can either be a source of greenhouse gas emissions or a sink for these emissions, depending on the intensity of grazing, according to a new study by scientists at MIT and in China. Mar 15, 2024
When it comes to greenhouse gasses you have emissions and capture. Animals produce CO2, but the soil and plants that grow in it can capture CO2. Erickson's team has found that capture - helped out by grazing and manure, can far outweigh the emissions from cattle.
People around the world are getting hoodwinked. Climate change agenda is just another form of attack on our freedoms. I have no problem trying to be green and trying to lower emissions.. but not at the expense of my freedom and especially what the fk goes on my dinner plate. I enjoy animal flesh in between my teeth.
OP has gotten sucked into one of many tools of the deceivers along with anyone else who actually keeps spouting climate change. You're getting emotionally sucked into an illusion and narrative like a Hollyweird film.
So I'd like to know, directly from OP.. the answers to my question. Maybe as OP takes the time to deep dive into why he/she is dealing with depression, OP will realize, climate change is NOT the reason OP is depressed. Because OP hasn't actually been impacted by it. None of us have. We humans, nor the stupid fkin delicious cows are to blame either. Climate change is not even exclusive to our planet.
And no... this is not trolling. So please don't delete my comment and ban me just because of my opposition and sincerely questioning OP about their depression.
"You can't yet see the train you know is barreling down the tracks towards you... I think you have better things to think and worry about"
Way I see it, it's like being worried over a nightmare. It's an illusion your mind produced. Nightmares happen. Not much you can do about it. No different than changes in climate, it happens, not much we can do about it. We can pretend that we can lessen climate changes to 100% or 90% or even 50% but we don't control earth, other planets, much less the rest of the galaxy. Changes to climate are going to happen naturally as they have since the birth of reality.
It’s an illusion your mind produced.
Lmao climate change isn't an illusion, what are you talking about
Changes to climate are going to happen naturally
We're not talking about natural climate changes, we're talking about climate change caused by human actions.
The illusion is that YOU and I are to blame for climate change. And we have to face the consequences by making sacrifices for the sake of mother earth... when in reality, we nor any other living creature is the blame for changes in climate. It's not accelerating like it's supposed to have been since what? The 1930s? The world should have burned down to the groun... to nothingness 10 times over according to all the specialists/scientists. 🙄
You're talking nonsense. Yes, living people are currently causing climate change. Those most responsible have names and addresses.
The world should have burned down to the groun… to nothingness 10 times over according to all the specialists/scientists.
This is just embarrassingly ignorant. The climate is deteriorating faster than scientists predicted, not slower.
Your answer to OP's question is denial and a refusal to actually investigate the situation.
claims climate change isn't caused by humans
links to article about climate change being caused by humans
I'm owned
The narrative cannot change. That is, climate change is the fault of humans and animals.
However, the link I provided rebuts your claim that climate change is accelerating because of human activities. Since the 1930s, we were told that because of humans we have climate change and if we don't limit human activities that cause climate change, we will see an acceleration of climate change so severe the world will end.
For example:
August 10, 1969, Erlich in the New York Times: “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”
April 1970, Erlich in Mademoiselle: “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
Harvard biologist and Nobel Prize winner George Wald, speaking at the University of Rhode Island in November 1970: “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
Dennis Hayes, key organizer of Earth Day, in The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970: “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
Kenneth Watt, UC Davis ecologist: “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
We were even warned that because of climate change millions of people will starve to death... a claim made in the late 60's, yet from that time to today, the world population grew exponentially and for the most part are sustaining. Humanity is thriving far better than before, while climate change has been getting worse, to the point of all living things going extinct because of man made climate change.
Simply put, the math isn't mathing. The goal is to limit the freedoms of human activities.
You reject the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is caused by humans, then you want to pull debatelord shit about the history of climate science forecasts. Fuck off.
I fear going outside during the summer day because i feel seek from staying in the heat for too long
Does that count as "impacting my personal life"?
I think you should seek medical attention. Seek a physician. Unless you're an elderly person.