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Miss me with that doomer shit (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by andrewrgross@slrpnk.net to c/memes@slrpnk.net

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Not givin' up

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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You are utterly powerless to stop this, even at your most self actualized, mobile, and focused you are fundamentally incapable of changing what needs to be changed.

This is flat out wrong.

You're missing the point, because your scale is off. I'm not trying to change the planet. I'm trying to change my city and neighborhood. I'm not trying to hold back the tides. I'm trying to teach the next generation the resiliency to survive a long road to something better.

Those goals are totally in my reach. I can't save billions, but I can definitely save dozens. Perhaps hundreds over the next century. And if enough of us do that, collectively we CAN save billions.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We don't have a century, we barely have decades, your scale is off, and honestly I don't want to be right, it would be amazing to be wrong about this, but I feel like I know with absolute certainty that we've really just got a few decades max before the planet is unrecognizable in significant ways you are probably thinking won't happen until centuries.

It'll be too hot for roads, solar panels, and conventional air flight much sooner than people realize. The first springs that trees fail to reproduce will honestly probably not be noticed, it won't happen everywhere, all at once, but eventually the lifecycle of much of the plant life will be so misaligned that you'll see the failures of entire areas of plant life, but by that point too, you'll probably be more aware of how silent it is outside except for cars.

We're already at the point that localized heatwaves are killing a huge, like unimaginably huge amount of land animals, and ocean acidification is preventing shelled creatures from forming or maintaining shells, all while coral reefs bleach, and fish die off due to changes in oxygenation.

I wish this sobering reality wasn't happening right now, but it is.