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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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IMO a lot of the doomer garbage comes from people who are disconnected from nature completely. I think they live in bubbles of digital doomscrolling and never literally touch grass. Because if you get outside of oppressive concrete urban environments and visit the forest you will see nature persisting along just as it always has. And as we are part of nature, we can also persist along with it.
The technology of modern living is also reason for hope. With some effort individuals can live independently without the need for municipal utilities of any kind, and enjoy the freedom that only self-sufficiency can provide. But people seem to be very complacent these days and unwilling try anything that seems hard. Meanwhile we have all the information of the world at our fingertips for easy access to learn how to do anything. We can each accomplish almost anything - with the info on the Internet I have been able to learn and do anything I wanted to do.
Where are all of the insects and small animals in those forests? In many places around the world the populations of these creatures have decreased by 75% over the last 50 years. That grass you went out to touch is an invasive species that we have cultivated so widely that it is eradicating the breeding grounds of insects.
I know that you think your personal experience is more telling than decades of research and data by scientists but nature is not 'persisting' in the way you claim. It is slowly dying.
I have to wear bug spray and/or long sleeves going out into the woods, the bugs get all over me and are everywhere all the time. There's lots of wildlife like squirrels, raccoons, deer, coyotes, lizards, frogs, salamanders, woodchucks, beavers, and more all over the place. Seems pretty good here except for the more intense weather seasons we've been getting the last 10 years or so.
If it gets too much warmer or disruptive climate here I may decide to migrate north a couple hundred miles or something. My family and descendants should be able to carry on likewise.
What you have just told me is that you have not done any serious research into the actual effects of climate degradation. Whether or not you had a personal experience of there being lots of insects, it is a fact that their populations are in freefall. Fertility in many clades of life is dropping off as well due to excess heat (yes that's a thing).
Agriculture will collapse regardless of this as our soil fertility plummets as well. There are always more fertilizers, that drain into the ocean and cause algal blooms that create dead zones where there is no oxygen. Happens more and more.
Idk why you are so confident that it will not dramatically affect you.