• Cybermass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In torn between following my dreams and dedicating my life to attempting to help the climate crisis by going to school and inventing some tech to help

    and giving up entirely, coasting through life with my stable government job, and drinking to forget until the day I hang myself…

    This world is fucked, should I even try? Or should I just hope in reincarnation?

    • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Well if no one does anything it won’t be better should reincarnation come around.

      I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

      Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

        • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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          1 year ago

          The Lorax which is really the most applicable one here.

          If you haven’t read it I’ll also suggest The Butter Battle Book if you’re interested in morality that boomers retroactively want to have not taught their children

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      1 year ago

      The problem isn’t tech to help the environment, as far as I can tell. It’s more getting the people in charge to actually do something about it.

      I think the French once invented a device for that, I forget what it was called.

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      1 year ago

      Would you really want to be reincarnated onto this sweat box of a planet?

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      1 year ago

      One could argue that we (humans) are doing exactly what we are meant to do and that the climate change isn’t a ‘problem’ on the grander scale.

      Change is only ‘bad’ based on perspective. Climate Change could also be the pressure catalyst that drives evolutionary change. The pressure exerted on coal underground could be considered ‘bad’ for the coal but it also drives the transformation of coal into diamond.