How does any of this shit even matter when we will all die or have our lives ruined by climate change in our lifetimes?

This is pretty much how I see things:

I think we're fucked for a variety of reasons, and it's looking uncomfortably probable that billions are going to die and if things really go pear-shaped it'll possibly happen in my lifetime, but realistically I can do fuck-all about any of it (I was more of an activist for years but now I'm middle-aged and tired) and in the past maybe year or so I've found myself more and more just refusing to stress about any of this. I'm going to try and live my life the best I can, do good by the people in my life, and just… I don't know, "stop caring" would maybe be too strong because I do care, but I guess I sort of accept what the situation is.

Doesn't mean I'm a nihilist or that I'm now clubbing baby seals and heating my apartment with a burning barrel of crude, but more like I've started to accept how much power – ie. how little power – I have over any of this and just want to live the latter half of my life in as much peace as is going to be possible.

Chicago is a perfect example of what happens with a lack of trees, colder winters and hot summers. In NYC and other places they doing natural water absorption areas (forgot what it's called) to prevent flooding by using trees and so on because the concrete helps with flooding. I think I saw it on Weathered on PBS. I hate it in my neighborhood when people just cut down trees for no reason other that they don't want to deal with it. Other than the environmental benefits I feel it makes my neighborhood beautiful.

A tree is not only beautiful but super helpful in a city. Provides cover from sun, rain and other elements. Regenerates air.

Yet I hear people in the streets wanting to cut them down. What do they want? Asphalted cities or what?

Do you have an example?

I live in Austria and most local governments start doing the opposite. They plant trees all around the city even if it takes away some parking spots for cars. And as the trees grow, the shading area gets bigger and it get's cooler.

Write your your representative in the city

I think even without the heat, just seeing greenery is supposed to be calming and good for your mental health.

Cities that don't prioritize this look so bleak and depressing to me. The same goes for a lot of newly built cookie-cutter suburbs where they place the houses so close together than there's not enough room for any nature.

Do them a favor and get some polarized window film and imstall it for them

What if the tree bears fruit, and an unemployed individual is able to acquire food without giving money to the owner class?

Armed guards at every tree

What if while walking, someone stumbles and thereby gets out onto the street and is struck by a car, not killing them instantly but causing them a long and painful remaining (but still overall greatly shortened) lifetime of misery, pain, suffering, and depression, and then they write a book that inspires the next Hitler to unleash a new era of genocidal warfare upon the world?

I guess we'll deal with whatever comes our way 😀.

Yeah, theme parks tend to be asshole designed to keep you circulating through the park, and spending money. Normal city parks in most places do the asshole design as much. We still have a large amount of trees in our cities compared to Europe according to all the tourists.

California or Canada?

Trees are amazing

Closer to 15.

Same here.

15° C (or 15 K)

25 °F is -3.8 °C

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If you don't damage them it isn't a problem. They produce sap as a defense mechanism

Tell me you've never been to the US, or never been outside the US, without telling me you've never been to the US or never been outside the US.

Actually many places in the US have trees. It depends on where you are as it is a big country with 50 states