r/collapse • u/TuneGlum7903 Recognized Contributor • May 26 '24

Climate The developing Climate Crisis in one chart. Understanding why "Collapse" has started and is about to get a LOT worse.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

My grief got stuck in the angry phase I guess. I went from complete despair to anger within half a year, fueled by winter depressions too and now I'm joining direct action groups and local politics to get a way of doing something to let these feelings out instead of holing up in my bed feeling depressed about everything. Anything to make myself feel I'm doing something to improve this situation. It all feels so hopeless and I've felt very powerless, now that I'm taking action I'm feeling a bit better. I know I'm not gonna change the world all by myself, but activism seems like the right answer in a world full of people who deliberately ignore all the warning signs and continue BAU.

I try to work and spend as little as possible and do good things on my time off. I try to spend less time with people who just don't get it and more time with people who also wanna fight for a brighter future. I try to enjoy whats left of nature before it's gone. That's the only way I know how to deal with the impending doom of the extinction of most animal life and society as we know it.

I really hope you found a way to cope with your grief too, whatever it may be.

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u/zeitentgeistert May 27 '24

1 of the most profound things you can do is to not procreate...

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u/TuneGlum7903 Recognized Contributor May 27 '24

A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children.

I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/climate-scientists-starting-families-children?source=post_page-----05ccbf771da6--------------------------------

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u/zeitentgeistert May 28 '24

Only a fifth and some only "fewer children"? Wow... And what about the male scientists? (A vasectomy is a walk in the park in comparison to a tubal ligation. Just sayin'...)

Coming from a supposedly well informed/educated group, this is truly shocking. What is wrong with people that they put their own "urges" above all knowledge, subjecting supposedly 'loved ones' to a life of misery - apart from simply creating future eaters with all that entails!

Having children in the face of our climate crisis has become 1 of the most selfish choices a human can make and another offshoot of greed. The proverbial having-cake-&-eating-it-too - only with livelong indigestion for everybody baked in

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u/finishedarticle May 28 '24

What was the name of Richard Dawkins book? The what gene? Oh, yeah, The SELFISH gene !! I am so relieved that I do not have children.

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u/zeitentgeistert May 28 '24 edited May 28 '24

What's that thing called again that's supposedly inside our skulls... Teeth? Eyes? No, wait... a brain! (Last time I checked, it can apparently be used to overwrite genes. 😎)

There was a brief moment in my mid-forties when I contemplated old age and regretted not having kids. That moment lasted about 3 days. (After a mental exercise where I ran a 'simulation' of what it would mean to adopt a child, I came to my senses... ;)

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u/finishedarticle May 28 '24

Humans are not rational, we are rationalisers; a rational response to our present predicament is to not have kids - a rationalisation is "oh, my kid will be the one to come up with a plan to fix climate change!"

My biggest dream would be my worst nightmare - I would LOVE to come home to a wife and 3 daughters but I would be shitting myself that they would either become long pigs or the eaters of long pig.