Sometimes it's hard not to feel really discouraged about humanity when it seems like we ruin everything we touch.
Try to do better than the average human: Try minimizing your personal footprint, participate in some nature related NGO, etc.
Only by acting can we escape this feeling of depression and discouragement 💪.
I get that, and I do my part,... but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that's the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they're 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It's industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
This is exactly it. We can’d do things individually that make enough of a dent. I admire the people who truly do care, research, put time effort into trying to contribute what they can, but unfortunately a lot of people claiming to be green are taking very superficial actions. They do little to no research and purchase greenwashed products which make those same corporations contributing to the problem even more rich, and also harm the earth even more while using those products because a lot of them are actually worse to begin with. They want to feel good about themselves and in control while also doing very little if nothing. That's why I dislike the attitude of toxic positivity and acting like if we just make a plan it will all be fine. It allows people to remain willfully ignorant and feel good about nothing and makes it so it's even harder to enact real, meaningful change. The whole system needs to change, it's a global problem, and we all need to come together to fight this but we can't stop arguing online over the most simple things. With all that, and seeing more and more evidence we're crash landing past the point of making a change that will matter is extremely discouraging, and I think it's okay to feel that way. Change begins with facing the reality of things.
I've adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .
The federal government has almost no regulations against groundwater pumping, and individual states have weak, variable rules from region to region, per the Times.
Arizona is no exception. For most of its history, groundwater has been unregulated in much of the state, operating on a first come first serve basis, according to the National Audubon Society.
This means no limit on how much groundwater can be used, and people can simply drain the groundwater until it runs out, Cook said.
Also, it's rare to find studies of groundwater on a national scale. Most of the time research focuses on a single source or region.
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I have a friend in Udaipur where the Indians created several water collecting basins in like medieval times to combat freshwater shortage. Even if we assumed climate change wasn't solvable (it obviously is) this particular effect could be mitigated.
Pretty much every historical civilization grew beyond it's bounds then collapsed. The problem here is the collapse will be global. We either change in a way of our choosing or it will be forced upon us by war, disease, and famine. It is the standard way things go.
Yeah. I've made my peace with that. (Nitpick: some historical civilizations were conquered.)
I think conquered goes under the war catagory. :)
Ah. Miscommunication. It sounded like war was only an option now and historical civilizations all grew beyond its bounds before collapsing. Not all did. Some were conquered before then. Nitpick over. ;)
Arizona is no exception. For most of its history, groundwater has been unregulated in much of the state
Sometimes it's hard not to feel really discouraged about humanity when it seems like we ruin everything we touch.
Try to do better than the average human: Try minimizing your personal footprint, participate in some nature related NGO, etc.
Only by acting can we escape this feeling of depression and discouragement 💪.
I get that, and I do my part,... but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that's the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they're 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It's industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
This is exactly it. We can’d do things individually that make enough of a dent. I admire the people who truly do care, research, put time effort into trying to contribute what they can, but unfortunately a lot of people claiming to be green are taking very superficial actions. They do little to no research and purchase greenwashed products which make those same corporations contributing to the problem even more rich, and also harm the earth even more while using those products because a lot of them are actually worse to begin with. They want to feel good about themselves and in control while also doing very little if nothing. That's why I dislike the attitude of toxic positivity and acting like if we just make a plan it will all be fine. It allows people to remain willfully ignorant and feel good about nothing and makes it so it's even harder to enact real, meaningful change. The whole system needs to change, it's a global problem, and we all need to come together to fight this but we can't stop arguing online over the most simple things. With all that, and seeing more and more evidence we're crash landing past the point of making a change that will matter is extremely discouraging, and I think it's okay to feel that way. Change begins with facing the reality of things.
I've adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .
🤦🤷
I have a friend in Udaipur where the Indians created several water collecting basins in like medieval times to combat freshwater shortage. Even if we assumed climate change wasn't solvable (it obviously is) this particular effect could be mitigated.
Pretty much every historical civilization grew beyond it's bounds then collapsed. The problem here is the collapse will be global. We either change in a way of our choosing or it will be forced upon us by war, disease, and famine. It is the standard way things go.
Yeah. I've made my peace with that. (Nitpick: some historical civilizations were conquered.)
I think conquered goes under the war catagory. :)
Ah. Miscommunication. It sounded like war was only an option now and historical civilizations all grew beyond its bounds before collapsing. Not all did. Some were conquered before then. Nitpick over. ;)
I don't see this article makes any mention of "Saudi Arabia", who is exporting water back home from Arizona.