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Doomerism
(lemmy.world)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Doomerism = giving up
Fair enough. I think doom as in. End of times. Time fo nut up or shit up. When you are backed up against the wall you need to fight. Not give up.
But perspective and all that
Spreading awareness of how fucked everything is, is not giving up.
People need to know that the world is fucking ending so that they stop having kids and buying cars and doing stupid shit. People should be enjoying the last of the abundance and lowering their expectations about the future.
People need to be told and forced. Humans are greedy selfish pieces of shit
Nah i draw the line at forced.
Humans suck tho, you're right about that.
Octavia Bulter wrote in I think it was Lillith's Brood, that (I'm paraphrasing) 'humans are greedy, easily corruptable and prone to violent authoritarianism- and always have been' and it's stuck with me for years now.