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?

  • Gargantuanthud@lemmy.ca
    81·
    29 days ago

    People only caring if it personally affects them is a part of how it got this bad in the first place.

    • StaySquared@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      28 days ago

      New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. Jun 4, 2024

      Cattle grazing can either be a source of greenhouse gas emissions or a sink for these emissions, depending on the intensity of grazing, according to a new study by scientists at MIT and in China. Mar 15, 2024

      https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-finds-lands-grazing-can-worsen-help-climate-change-0315#:~:text=Cattle grazing can either be,at MIT and in China.

      When it comes to greenhouse gasses you have emissions and capture. Animals produce CO2, but the soil and plants that grow in it can capture CO2. Erickson’s team has found that capture - helped out by grazing and manure, can far outweigh the emissions from cattle.

      People around the world are getting hoodwinked. Climate change agenda is just another form of attack on our freedoms. I have no problem trying to be green and trying to lower emissions… but not at the expense of my freedom and especially what the fk goes on my dinner plate. I enjoy animal flesh in between my teeth.

      OP has gotten sucked into one of many tools of the deceivers along with anyone else who actually keeps spouting climate change. You’re getting emotionally sucked into an illusion and narrative like a Hollyweird film.

      So I’d like to know, directly from OP… the answers to my question. Maybe as OP takes the time to deep dive into why he/she is dealing with depression, OP will realize, climate change is NOT the reason OP is depressed. Because OP hasn’t actually been impacted by it. None of us have. We humans, nor the stupid fkin delicious cows are to blame either. Climate change is not even exclusive to our planet.

      And no… this is not trolling. So please don’t delete my comment and ban me just because of my opposition and sincerely questioning OP about their depression.