The reality is setting in that people simply do not care about making the world a better place. It is breaking my heart, and I do not know how to reconcile my thoughts. I'm sorry to be such a downer here but I don't know where else to share.
Perhaps the climate catastrophe, human suffering, and inequality is so large and so much out of people's hands that even people who care have come to a state of learned helplessness. However, there are things within people's control that doesn't change. At work, I listen to a coworker frustrated about a simple problem. It would be a simple change to make this person's job much less painful, but he "just works here". It's just such a dumb problem to waste hours of someone's life on. To a certain extent, I can't blame him, because a lot of people just work to survive.
I want to make the world a better place. A world where people have all there basic needs met, live in balance with nature, and have a right to self determination. A world where humanity strives to be the best version of itself. I can't help but get sad or frustrated when I see something wrong. I can't help but feel like I'm a downer to my friends when I point these things out. They don't disagree with me, but it just seems like a depressing topic. People seem generally content to live their normal lives. In the same way, I can't blame them. It won't build a better future, but they deserve to be happy.
Maybe my coworkers are right, and that I'm too naïve. Maybe my friends are right, and that I'm too empathetic for my own good. I am envious that they can turn off the thing in their head that worries, or wants to make things better, and that they can just enjoy life. A more utopian future is generations away, or maybe never. If I can't effect change, maybe I should find an outlet, or stop caring, or something. idk, sorry for yapping. if you're reading this i hope you have a good day
Yeah, this blows my mind too. A few of my co-workers who have multiple kids each leave their monitors (2 each) fully powered-on, as in displaying images, 24x7x365. You have to go way out of your way to make that happen. The thoughtlessness just drives me insane. I'm child-free too, and I wonder if the fact that these folks are having multiple kids is a clear indicator that they do not think about their impact on the future or the environment so it shouldn't be a surprise to us that they don't care.
Oh no, a few hundred kwh per year. I did some back of the napkin math and using quite generous estimates the electricity for that came to roughly the same carbon emissions as 1 tank of gasoline per year. The 'multiple kids' part is going to be many, many times more impactful.
I would have expected way less than a tank of gasoline a year, but the point is why go out of your way to completely waste electricity and monitors when you have kids who will have to grow up with climate change?
@Cricket It makes my brain hurt.
Gene pool.
I'm just adding the phrase "gene pool" in a reply because I assume the heavy-handed moderation of this platform is why it's been left out of the discussion so far.
The real impact on the future is terrifying. Gene pool.
This isn't lemmy.ml, please stop implying that we do unreasonable moderation here when there is absolutely no evidence for that.
Your reply is evidence of that, especially considering before your reply, there was evidence in the form of vote scores and culture, and especially damning evidence in the sidebar's "rules" section.
You really love rage baiting moderators, right?
Not exactly.