I'm sure you recognize that you contribute to the loop in these threads. People do their defeatism thing, you bitch about them doing their defeatism thing, they bitch about you bitching about them and so on.
I bitch about them doing their defeatism thing because I'm choosing to live my life to hope, rather than despair about the future.
But this was always happening before Trump.
The United States is still a major player and the fact the elected President denies science makes it hard to see past the doom.
I'm only 21. I have no choice but to look towards the future. So I'm not gonna just take it when I see some posts saying that we're all gonna be wiped out in about half a century from now just because of this one administration.
I want to get a girlfriend and get married. I want to have children. Can you imagine how much it irritates me when I hear people in these threads saying NOT to do the latter like the future's 100% set in stone?
I'm choosing not to believe in that bleak future, and living my life to the best I can, doing my part in the climate change fight in any way I can.
I want other people to feel the same way, no matter what the news says. That's why I speak up in these threads and get angry. I'm trying to ignite some ray of hope amidst all this despair that everyone's feeling.
I believe that humans will find a solution to climate change. Maybe not now, maybe not next year or ten years after, but eventually we'll find a solution.
That doesn't mean I don't feel scared about climate change. I do. But I can't let that fear affect how I communicate with others. Both IRL and online.
So if anything, I sure as hell won't be contributing to the despair in these threads.
Effort doesn't rewind time, just slows the effects that are still going to come regardless. We're way past the point of rewinding time and taking it all back.
The planet is at the terminal stage, and we're the organisms shutting down. Right now our effort is just a concoction of drugs to slow the effect but no matter what...we're dying.
We are NOT dying.
It's posts like these that infuriate me the most. These smug, arrogantly worded posts who's only purpose is to make yourself sound like the smartest person in the room.
YOU DO NOT KNOW THE FUTURE.
it will literally take miracles, so that's where the defeatism is coming from
I believe in miracles. Humans have accomplished many miracles over time.