To be entirely fair, we are like 2 cubic meters of carbon dioxide away from total ecological collapse. Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it. The oceans will rise, climate catastrophes will increase, and the world will become more hostile.

It kind of feels like were frogs in a boiling pot, and we're living though the apocalypse now. But the wifi still works, so scroll on and don't think about it too much.

it makes them feel special/superior.

people are addicted to those feelings

Also generations.

Old folk like me have lived through several end of the world predictions ..... I really don't care any more.

But new young generations haven't so they are more likely to believe them ... like I did the first few times it happened.

(and if you're wondering when I first believed those predictions, they were mostly before my tenth birthday when several predictions said either Jesus was coming back or nuclear war was about to happen ... all things I believed because adults said so)

..... a funny thought experiment is to think that the world did end 20, 30 or 40 years ago and this is all the afterlife .... we just don't know it.

We just need someone to declare every day that the rapture will happen. Then it won't happen during their lifetime. After the person dies, appoint someone else as rapture declarer. Voila, no more rapture.

it's fucking beautiful...🥹

If fewer people thought like this, and we came together to fight what's happening, then it wouldn't be this way. But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.

And I get it- it's overwhelming, and it's a lot easier to say "I told you so," than it is to say "We fought hard and won."

While I sympathize with you for feeling exhausted and depressed, it's frankly rather selfish of you to go from that to "and therefore everyone should die." There are people who are doing okay and there are people who are exhausted and depressed but who still want to make a go of it. Don't wish for the world to end because they're still using it.

I think this is why so many people are pulled into this kind of thinking. I can't say I don't sympathise. I do believe that a better world is possible, but it feels increasingly unlikely that I'll get to see it.

I do what I can to push for things to improve, through political organising and supporting my community in whatever way I can, but it's hard not to become morally burnt out when I know that I'm doing only a fraction of what I theoretically could be due to constantly struggling to keep my head above water. That's how the capitalist engine continues to chug onwards as it does.

Here's the part where I wish I could say something reassuring, but I can't. I'm far younger than you are, so I know that if I'm feeling exhausted, then it would be trite and foolish to think I could make you feel hopeful about your future when I don't even know if I have hope for myself. In lieu of hope, please accept this offer of solidarity. It doesn't do much to change the suckish reality we find ourselves in, but nonetheless, it feels important to highlight that you're not alone in feeling this way. For what it's worth, I'm glad you're still with us, and I hope that you find some solace, in this life or the next.

That would be beautiful ❤️

Might as well be.