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how do you avoid getting blackpilled/paralyzed by climate change (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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like holy shit the bourgeoisie are trying to kill us all actively en masse within our lifetimes and all movement against it feels like it has died come the 20s. Every time it gets brought up it feels like people are either revelling in it, are denying it, are too tired to care, say “someone's going to fix it so there's no point in worrying," or get angry asking "well what do you want me to do about it I can't fix it" or something. It feels like we're in a moment where we have just abandoned science all together in the decaying west, so the plan is almost like to keep attacking the biosphere out of spite for everyone around us.

It feels Lovecraftian, I can't think about it because every time I do it paralyzes me in awe of the urgency and scope of what has to be done. Do I just stop thinking about it? I guess the answer is to keep organizing but I'm scared that we don't have enough time at this rate to address it before it gets catastrophic and has irreversible effects

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This binary catastrophe/non-catastrophe dichotomy is a myth and actively harmful propaganda promulgated by the fossil fuel industry. Yes it is too late to prevent the terrible, irreversible effects of climate change.

But every additional tonne of CO2 makes the effects even worse. It's not like "oh, we've locked in catastrophe, we can throw up our hands, there's nothing left to do." No, it's a gradient of severity, and it gets worse the less we do.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hundreds of millions, billions are going to die from climate change. That is a catastrophe. WhyEssEff was considering/hoping that being avoidable, I'm saying it wasn't. You and I agree on that.

Yea I also agree with you that more ghg makes the effect worse, makes catastrophe worse, all that. Didn't say we should throw up our hands. I was just trying to say that its going to be catastrophically bad (again hundreds of millions to billions) and that it isn't avoidable. Totally agree with you we should make it the least bad catastrophe possible. I'd much rather 2 billion then 4, or have a bit better quality of life, etc. Definitely not worth giving up and not dropping emissions as fast as we possibly can.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah exactly, unless she means she's absolutely certain that human extinction will happen.