How are you coping with climate change?

LustyArgonian@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 99 points –

This has been a doozy of a year. And it's the best year so far blah blah. So how are you all coping? Does it hit anyone else like a bolt of lightning that probably I - we - won't die of old age?

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I found this video to be helpful in comforting me. It minimized all those scary truths those pesky scientists keep bringing up. Once you find just the right take you can be on the bandwagon but with zero responsibility and accountability!

This is why the moderates will be first.

I didn't say that.

My point was that saying "nothing is getting better and everything is terrible" is doing a great disservice to all the hard work of people actually working on solving this issue. There's certainly a lot of work that still needs to be done.

There are three lenses on how to look at the world:

  • The world is awful.
  • The world is much better.
  • The world can be much better.

These need not be mutually exclusive and you are limiting yourself if you only focus on the world through one of these lenses.

I should minimize the hard hard work and message of the others to protect the feelings I think they have. Then, I should create a strawman argument.

No, apathetic moderate. You're the greater obstacle.

Eh. I do what I can where I can. It's something I'm trying to get better at accepting about myself. No use sressing about things I have little influence over.

Given all the arguments I've been in online, I'd hardly describe myself as "apathetic" though. :P

I'd hardly describe myself as "apathetic" though

I believe your heart's in the right place. I'll write a sincere response, though it's deep meta.

Given all the arguments I've been in online

If you ever feel like that alone isn't the best thing for you then the rest of my message could apply.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The individual who wrote the line above called it the "great stumbling block in (our) stride toward freedom".

I do what I can where I can.

One thing you could choose to do is read his words in the context he wrote them, think about how the themes apply to almost everyone today, then target specific individuals with good questions.

Dude, don't waste your energy on this guy.

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