• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’m not tuning out. Occasionally I wish I could, but that doesn’t align with my core values. Doomers aren’t the ones that tune out, people that primarily consume “reality” TV, aren’t “political, teehee,” couldn’t point to the middle east on a map with a gun to their head, and are habitually bubbly and optimistic about any topic despite living in this world are the ones tuned out living in blissful willful ignorance.

    You have to be paying attention to have hope beaten out of you in the first place. You may not like doomers, but they are burdened with knowledge, aka well informed. That’s why they bother the ignorant, they bum them out.

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      people that primarily consume “reality” TV, aren’t “political, teehee,” couldn’t point to the middle east on a map with a gun to their head, and are habitually bubbly and optimistic about any topic despite living in this world are the ones tuned out living in blissful willful ignorance.

      They’re not hopeful about climate change, they’re ignorant of it. That’s not the same thing.

      Doomers aren’ t burdened with knowledge, doomers are a burden on everyone else with knowledge who knows that this could be fixed if people acted.

      There is literally zero benefit to climate doomerism.

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        If more than just Greta starts doing the right thing and humanity starts fighting for change in tangible ways, ways that WOULD HAVE TO LEAD TO DIMINISHED HUMAN QUALITY OF LIFE by necessity to to have any decent future for humans, I will join them in destroying the industrial world so we may find equilibrium with nature again. I’m more than willing to put myself into the necessary billions must starve and our species must return to nature lottery if you are.

        Until then, have fun following the promise of the capitalist’s latest solution to themselves. What is It this week? Clean coal hydrogen corn based ethynol plant a tree offsets climate pledges AI oh yeah planetary scale carbon scrubbers. They’ll totes work, I mean just look at how much the capitalist’s will profit from them. Expensive=good=hope. We’ll start to see results sometime… after the world government’s checks have cleared of course. Just gotta hope!

        I do believe in planetary scale carbon scrubbers! I do! I do!

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          “I would do something, but instead I’ll do nothing and complain”

          Okay, great contribution.