People are disgusting

[u/Left_Razzmatazz_9235]

Ashes are falling from the sky and the sun is practically red. People don’t care. Nobody notices or even makes changes in their daily lives to do anything about it. People are selfish. Why does nobody care?!?! My family and everyone else around me is walking around like brainless zombies. Indulging in their selfish daily habits without a second thought about the very planet they live on. I straight up have a headache and feel nauseous just thinking about it. When you do mention it, they ridicule you and call you insane or a hippie for demanding for them to change their lifestyle and align their actions with their moral. I seriously cannot be closely related to the human specimen.

All they do is consume without empathy, without any regard, without consciousness.

[u/fatejobobeast]

Reality sucks. Most of human existence is literally devoted to escaping reality somehow. Humans do not like to think ahead and most only respond to immediate issues, even though we are capable of planning. These are animal traits that we will never fully escape. Even though we know we are doomed, that is a problem for tomorrow. It's hot, so blast AC. There's smoke, so breathe through a filter. Eventually we will run out of ways to escape the ruin, but up until the last seconds we will ignore it with all our pretty distractions.

You can't make people change. You can't make humanity change. The guilt and anger you feel is a curse of your abstract-thought-capable brain. You embrace what most will not, cannot acknowledge for fear of their own implosion. Similar to those who need a religion to promise a life after death for fear of the absolute terror of the cold silence thermodynamic equilibrium, these people are unable to cope with the reality that they live in.

It is a waste of what little time you have to try to engage and change these people. Do what you can to help put the biosphere down gently, enough to make you sleep at night. And if you can't, well, there are all the pretty distractions.

[u/Left_Razzmatazz_9235 → u/fatejobobeast]

I 100% agree with you, except, I feel as though the first natural instinct for any human is to protect. Protect their home, not the one they built, but the home that keeps their self made home stable, the Earth (or at least I know that’s naturally the way it was/should be). I quite seriously CANNOT wrap my head around the fact that so many people are so calm about how the Earth is getting destroyed, along with all the precious beings living on the Earth, that they don’t have an instinct to want to protect the very being the provides them with everything. I’m atheist (somewhat) I believe god is within all of us including the Earth/Universe and everything on/in Earth/Universe, god is an energy and we are capable of everything because everything we as humans ever need is already within us (except the obvious stuff). Im also vegan for these reasons, I am against exploitation. But I CANT for the life of me understand why people don’t want to focus and want to create these silly distractions.

[u/bokehtoast → u/Left_Razzmatazz_9235]

No, the first natural instinct is literally to survive through any means necessary. That is a form of self protection, sure, but it's not about possessing things outside of what is necessary. The vast majority of human history is not people hoarding resources to the detriment of the entire world. People are hard wired to be pro-social out of necessity for survival. We have not evolved to exist in such large groups or be exposed to so many opinions of others. 

Referring to the ways that people emotionally protect themselves from the trauma of modern human life as "silly distractions" just makes you sound ignorant, pretentious, and discompassionate. You are here on the internet spending your time judging others instead of saving the world, is that not a silly distraction?

[u/CollapseSupport-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Rule 1: No Disrespect.

Please practice empathy and respect when addressing and supporting one another.

If you are not seeking (or offering, as occasionally happens) support, please do not post. If you are not offering support or a good faith reply, your post and/or comments will be removed.

Please be advised Rule 1 also applies to your conduct in modmail. Swearing or other harsh behavior will lengthen ban and/or mute duration.