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The Fatal Flaws of the Futureless Left | The rise in antinatalist sentiments signals a collective loss of faith in the future (jacobin.com)
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The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow. A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.

Tldr: How do you inspire people to work for a better tomorrow if you don't believe tomorrow can be better? Trump and the American right have a vision of a future America that they claim will be great and glorious. The American left - and the global left - have lost sight of the future entirely. Instead of promising a bright future, they merely seek to endure the crises of the present - and some on the left have given up even that.

The article speaks to the desperate need for hope - for a clear, compelling, leftist vision of the future to serve as a guiding light for left-wing activists and politicians.

And hey, what political slash environmental slash aesthetic movement focused on a hopeful future just got its instance back up?

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[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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.

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