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It must be a localised thing because I am not seeing any of what you describe where I live.
Things are back to the way they were before covid.
No better but certainly no worse.
There is tonnes of doom and gloom online but I see little to none of it talking to the people in the community around me.
the slow boiled frog doesn't hop out of the pot. I think there's a tremendous amount of dismay in the scientific community that's not coming across in the media. The main outlet I don't see downplaying the issue is the Guardian, here are some examples of their reporting on the actual climate researcher's reactions:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/05/gobsmackingly-bananas-scientists-stunned-by-planets-record-september-heat
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/27/arctic-warming-scientists-alarmed-by-crazy-temperature-rises
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/why-scientists-are-using-the-word-scary-over-the-climate-crisis
I'm a buyer for a large food distributor, so my job is importing food from around the world. There is definitely a lot of worrying conversation at work everyday. So many crop failures and shortages. I think a lot of people are oblivious to these things, they just see the price of tomatoes go up and think we're being greedy when actually it's because whole crops have failed.
I mean, it doesn't help that grocers are facing the pinch from supply, while also simultaneously jacking up prices internationally on all kinds of commodities that aren't threatened. Prices have risen, but so has profit taking by billionaire assholes.
https://www.vox.com/money/23641875/food-grocery-inflation-prices-billionaires
yes, it does. That is the worst smart sounding metaphor that gets used again and again. While being complete bullshit.
Yep. Human civ is basically fucked.
The three choices you have are:
euthanasia
Complain about it every waking minute.
Or try to find some happiness in the meantime.
fuck that. fuck everything about crying, killing yourself or ignoring the issue.
what an example for your kids. we should be tearing the doors off of the petroleum companies, forcing them to stop the disinformation, tearing down the super pacs that they fund and basically anything would be better than your proposals.
fuck everything about that defeatist bullshit.
I chose not to have kids to lessen my climate impact 25+ years ago. That way my climate impact dies with me. It is the biggest emissions reduction any person can make.
You do what ever you want, though you seem to be complaining quite a lot about my choices and that others may complain or chose to end their climate impact on their own terms.
I live simply, no car, public transport only. My phone is 7 years old, my pc is 10.
etc etc etc