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Strazdas1 t1_jc62hx5 wrote

Reply to comment by YawnTractor_1756 in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions

this also leads to emotional burnout in people. No wonder the Z generation is so nihilistic, they are growing up in a world of constant negative information. They stopped caring.

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jc6jk0c wrote

Sure. The point is: find local newspaper and read it daily. You would not believe how great it feels to find out that everything is not actually bad and getting worse, and how satisfying it is to learn news about things you know, pass on daily basis and actually care about.

People were learnt to think global since WW2 but this pendulum has swung too far.

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Strazdas1 t1_jc6nr6o wrote

Unless you live in a palce like the town i live in where the local news that are portrayed as something good isnt if you actually know whats being done. Stuff like "new infrastructure". Sounds good right? except its designed to be anti-pedestrian repeating same mistakes our city architect swore not to do years ago.

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jc77bjh wrote

  • "New hospital, cool right, but when you remember that healthcare is cripplingly expensive it's depressing"
  • "New school cool right, but when you remember that teachers are underpaid it's depressing"
  • "New houses cool right, but when you remember few young people can afford houses it's depressing"
  • "New festival cool right, but when you remember how many people go without enough food it's depressing."

If you want to find depressing element in anything, you will. I am trying my best, but one has to choose to be happy, to actually be happy.

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Strazdas1 t1_jc9obn5 wrote

Let me twist this a bit.

"New hospital, cool right, but when you remember that you are the one paying for other peoples poor life choices its depressing."

"New school cool right, but when you remember this results in parents driving their children across town to it polluting everyones slung in the process it's depressing"

"New houses cool right, but when you remember that they look like something soviets buit in the 60s and the city architect simply rubberstamps any project coming across his desk it's depressing"

"New festival cool right, but when you remember the noise pollution will make sure you are sleep deprived for a week it's depressing."

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jca5614 wrote

Again, happiness is a choice. If on one hand you want it, but on the other you can't seem to make yourself choose to view the world so it wold happen, consider talking to specialist, I'm not trying to be offensive.

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Strazdas1 t1_jca8a02 wrote

Choosing to be happy in a situation of despair is a sign of mental illness.

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420ligmagooch t1_jc6rg8r wrote

Why are you trying to downplay this massive issue at hand is puzzling?! Tf is your objective

Why would you not want the "pendulum to swing back" like saving the planet from catastrophe is not something everyone would benefit from in the long run

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goobershank t1_jc6w6ry wrote

But the other side is trying to amplify it and make it sound as horrible as possible.

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Ihadanapostrophe t1_jc74llw wrote

Because global warming of the kind we are causing/experiencing is quite literally unprecedented in human civilization. We have no method currently feasible at large-scale to undo the damage we've created.

It is going to be horrible, no matter what we do. It does have the potential to be civilization-ending. That's pretty much the end of humans as an advanced species.

If we lose our current level of civilization, we will likely never truly become a space-faring species and will instead end when the Earth does.

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