"You have to acknowledge that some of the smartest researchers in the world concluded that negative emotions kept people on platform longer than positive ones. And so the algorithms that control your media diet, if you’re not examining them, you just need to know that things can be bad and they can be not as bad as some very effective researchers and coders want you to believe they are so you will stay glued to your phone.
The things that give you hope and the things that will make the world better are growing in places you cannot see and you should put the phone down and go join them, because they need your help.”
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I have yet to see The War Between the Land and the Sea because Disney decided to give the finger to Doctor Who, but I have heard what happens and from what I've seen been said, I can't help but wonder if they're leaning into climate doomerism. Which is uh... concerning.
I'll have to check it out when I can to properly decide for myself, but while I like dark and tragic stories, I feel like with a topic like climate change, we need as many narratives pushing for humanity to change and do better as possible.
Like, again, I can't say for sure until I've actually seen it, but I feel like just another round of "wow, humanity sure does suck!" but then just shrugging and letting the status quo perpetuate because Doctor Who insists on a modern status quo is kind of... yeah.
Like, climate change and industrial capitalism is literally causing an extinction event. A lot of right-wingers have realised they can't deny climate change is real, so either they downplay or lean into... you guessed it, climate doomerism.
Going "yeah it sucks, but what can you do?" not only gives fossil fuel companies and other big polluters (including the military industrial complex) an excuse to keep doing what they do, but when the negative effects do reach society, it's an excuse to push regressive policy.
You've heard about ecofascism? People in power going to use the climate crisis as an excuse to push the shit they always do. You're already seeing ecofascist sentiments in stuff like how we have to stop immigration because population bad.
Again, I haven't seen TWBTLATS, so I can't judge for sure whether it is just straight up climate doomerism or if it has a more meaningful take than just "we are the virus lol". But I feel like given what I've heard, this is a discussion that should at least be had.
hey acti i just heard about the emperor penguins and the news has hit harder than i expected. not just because i love penguins but because it's such a horrifying reminder of the state of climate change and the fact that governments are not listening. i'm vegan but it doesn't feel like it's doing any good at this point (at least from an environmental standpoint). but on top of that the last few climate rallies i went to seemed to be dismissed entirely with no change to policy or discussion of changes to policy. all in all i'm feeling very hopeless and i'm not really sure what to do
It is truly devastating, it's the kind of news that makes your stomach sink. It was only last year that the 44th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin rejected the proposal to designate Emperor Penguins as a protected species, which at least would have gone some way to enforce greater protections of their habitat. The trouble is that this is a direct result of global warming, and the kind of action they need to be saved is much bigger than just direct intervention.
I don't know that there is anything I can say to make you feel better about this, sometimes it's alright to feel sad about something and to sit in that for a little while. Just don't let it drive you into real despair or inaction, we really don't have the luxury of not fighting or advocating on behalf of animals who are in such desperate need. Take some time for yourself, engage with some positive content around animals, visit a sanctuary if you can. Take the time to process, but try to put that energy towards something productive once you've done that.
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40 percent of Americans feel helpless about climate change, and 29 percent feel hopeless, according to a December 2020 survey. It’s also no surprise that these emotions are coming up during a devastating pandemic — yet another global disaster over which individual humans have seemingly little control.
To help stop climate change, we’ve sometimes been told to change our personal habits: recycle, reuse, take shorter showers, etc. But these individual choices are dwarfed by the actions of corporations and countries. Just 100 companies are responsible for 70 percent of the world’s carbon emissions since 1988, according to one study, and sweeping changes aren’t possible without government intervention. Not to mention the fact that poverty and other factors constrain the choices many people can make in the first place.
Given all this, it’s no surprise that “all of a sudden, everybody’s going into nihilism,” as Heglar puts it.
But experts say we’re not completely powerless, and there’s a way to live in an age of climate change without giving up or sticking your head in the sand. It’s not necessarily about going vegan or making your home zero-waste, either.
The idea of reducing your personal carbon footprint, while not inherently wrong, has often been used as a distraction, “pitting working people against each other with morality choices about how sustainable you are,” rather than “realizing how much you actually have in common,” Mejia said.
Instead, many say the key to fighting despair is to think beyond the individual and seek community support and solutions — especially those that put pressure on governments and companies to make the large-scale changes that are necessary to truly curtail emissions. As Heglar put it, “the most detrimental thing to climate action is this feeling that we’re all in it alone.”
Oil companies like ExxonMobil have used sophisticated PR campaigns to make climate change seem like an issue of personal responsibility, and deflect blame away from their own actions, as Rebecca Leber reported for Vox. “A lot of the individualist solutions that have propagated across society and across our discourse, such as the carbon footprint and the idea of self-sacrifice in order to save the planet, really have the fingerprints of a few oil companies,” Mejia said.
In truth, the biggest contributors to carbon emissions in the United States, transportation, electricity, and industry, are only partly under individuals’ control. People can choose to use less energy in their homes, but household electricity use only accounts for about 10 percent of CO2 emissions in the US — even getting rid of it entirely wouldn’t be enough to stop climate change. And while some people can choose to drive an electric car or go car-free, they can’t individually shut down coal plants or redesign America’s public transit systems to make that an option for everyone.
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Nature is not separate from us. It is not the far away rugged mountain ranges or pristine beaches. It isn’t the imagined rustic cabins or fantasy farms. It is your backyard, the parking lots, the world around us. And it deserves protection.
We are not a horrid, monstrous species that deserves to be wiped out. We lived WITH nature for thousands of years before all of this. Right now we commodify and separate ourselves from nature and it has led us here.
There is no way to rewind time, to heal without scars. The world around us will always carry the damage we’ve wrought. Nuclear radiation, waste, clear cuts, mountain top removal, etc.
But, that doesn’t make the nature of those places any less valid or lovable.
We’ve lost a lot and will continue to lose. Even now there are bits of nature being lost to us and we most likely will never get back. People are dying because of it.
It is OKAY to be upset. To be angry, enraged, depressed, occasionally apathetic when you are exhausted, hurt, lost etc.
We are grieving. We are despairing.
But, We MUST not give up on the places we’ve hurt. The nature that is struggling as we speak. For life will continue and it will adapt and grow and change. It is resilient. And so must we be.
Keep your heart open to the plastic ridden oceans and the landfills. To every animal on the verge of extinction. To the people who are right now suffering the consequences.
We grieve what we’ve lost and learn to love what remains.
We are the keepers of this planet. We have a responsibility. Yes, to our planet for it is everything we are, to the animals and plants and microbes. But, also to each other; to our ancestors and our future generations. To ourselves.
We are all connected , we are all related (mitakuye oyasin).
