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People should respond as if it is fixable, even if it is not. Any mitigation or reduction is positive. If you’re gonna go out, go out swinging. Reject the status quo. Expect more from yourself and others.
And also go Vegan 🤗
and unionize ✊
The problem is fixable, but my biggest worry right now is that rich nations will do enough to save rich nations. They’ll get most of their power from non-carbon based sources, pollute significantly less from industrial processes, protect their agricultural output, and switch 90% of cars on the road to BEVs. Then they just deal with the problems of increased flooding, wildfires, etc.
Meanwhile, the Middle East turns into a power vacuum because nobody wants their major export anymore. Africa starves to a level not seen in decades, or maybe ever.
Doom stops when people have hope. Teaching people how to climb to a solar punk future is the solution.
We need solar punk political candidates.
Actually, I did hear about CFCs being successfully replaced and the ozone hole closing. The reason that happened was that CFCs were replaced with something almost identical, manufactured by the exact same companies.
With fossil fuels, there is no straightforward direct replacement. They have to be replaced with something completely different, not merely slightly different, and the companies that make them will go out of business if such a change is implemented. Needless to say, they’d sooner kill every last one of us than allow that to happen, and so far, they’re on track to succeed in their destroy-all-humans plan.
Reject doomerism, embrace fatalism
Being a doomer doesn’t help
Doing nothing didn’t help
Assuming science will somehow solve the problem magically with no input doesn’t help
Assuming nothing you do matters because there’s people in China doesn’t help
It’s don’t as though we’re fucked so why not be a doomer
Dismissing problems using cheap labels like that helps even less. Actually causes harm.
Pretending we are all doomed just leads to inaction. Why bother, if we all die anyway.
Pretending all will be great just leads to inaction. Why do something yourself, when it is basicly solved already.
What works is to understand that there is a problem, but we have the solutions. That is actually the case right now. We have a massive problem with climate crisis, but we also have the tools to bring our emissions to basicly zero, if we choose to do it. Some countries are already taking actions on this.
@MrMakabar @XTL You put something in the words I always struggled to do. Thank you!
