Please come tell me I'm being unreasonably doomer (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by BigHaas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Alright, so we pump energy into a chaotic system and obviously the extremes will get more exteme. Stronger hurricanse, colder hurricanse and snap freezes, deeper floods, wet bulb events further north than you think possible, whatever. This is the known unknown.

I am existentially afraid of the unknown unknowns. At what point do the phytoplankton I'm currently breathing the poop of have a mass extinction event? All of human civilization is about to drown on dry land and I spend 5 days a week maintaining software that charges people for turning on their lights.

I crave death I crave oblivion death to america death to capitalism death to me.

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[-] odmroz@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When I was 20, I wanted to plan the rest of my life around avoiding the negative repercussions of global warming. I eventually gave it up because it was both impossible and made me feel sick to think about. I would get this horrible empty pit in my stomach.

Now, in my later 20s, I am just grateful that I got to live this little bit, see and feel some beautiful things. Call me greedy, I am just around to see how much more I can get away with before my time/ all of our times are up.

(Besides, some of the most beautiful things I've seen and felt were when things were worst for me.)

Anyway, I've seen your posts around a bunch and you seem cool and funny. DM me anytime.