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?

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    People saying do nothing, I’m saying do something!

    Get out start a community. If one already exists join it. Find ways to improve your community.

    Go vegan.

    There are so many things you can do. Don’t accept doing nothing, be a stubborn fuck and do something to alleviate the sadness.

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      3 months ago

      “There are so many things you can do. Don’t accept doing nothing, be a stubborn fuck and do something to alleviate the sadness.”

      Good words to live by. :)

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      3 months ago

      Go vegan.

      Any climate activist who isn’t vegan is just a virtue signalling poser.

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        3 months ago

        if it were effective at reducing industrial impacts you might be right.