So much of the discourse around climate seems designed to make people *feel* a particular way, rather than thinking through what kind of world we'll be living in a decade or two from now, and what we can realistically do about it as individuals, since collectively there's bupkis.
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Things will get worse. It’s my understanding, though, that we do have a choice about how much worse.
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How do you think that's possible, though? You and live under a paralyzed political system, and we just had the experience of the world failing to solve a collective action problem much easier than climate.
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There'll still be time for climate hopelessness once Exxon is razed to the ground and salt poured on the ruins but until then climate vindicativeness feels better.
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If people are at least honest about doing or believing stuff so they can feel better, I'm 100% with them.
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I'm not of the opinion that we're completely doomed as a species, but I am convinced that flint-knapping and atlatl skills are going to make a big comeback.
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i get that hopelessness is a tool of the people who don’t want things to change... but so are world governments. so what are we supposed to do?
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I think there's an effort to push back against hopelessness because it's self-fulfilling. Also, it's fundamentally a bet against human ingenuity -- it's conceivable that in the next 100 years, we invent our way out of the crisis.
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I should be more specific about my hopelessness! It's not all-encompassing, and I strongly agree that ingenuity is the likely way out.
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