I started getting sad about climate change two years ago after seeing Planet Earth and many documentaries. I completely changed my lifestyle to reduce my part and put significant effort into it.

But seeing rich celebrities who use as much as a common man’s lifetime resources in a week or two, and others who barely put in any effort to combat it, and corporations fucking the entire planet for quarterly profits, barely any efforts towards fighting it even though we had known about its consequences 30-40 years ago, I get this feeling that my efforts are even worth it.

Slowly, I told myself that evolution failed itself by giving a bit more individual selfishness over community/species survival. Just like human beings, Earth’s time has started to end. Its death is inevitable. Everything should come to an end. Only if evolution had given a bit more thought to species survival, we would be in a much better place.

How do you all deal with this?

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    But that’s not how carbon dioxide works. It isn’t individual poison - our bodies don’t give a shit whether it’s 350 ppm or 450 ppm. The planet does though.

    • ganymede@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      The planet does though.

      Is that the same planet we currently live on? And borrow atoms from to make our physical bodies?

      Poisoning the planet is poisoning ourselves.

      Quibbling over which part is direct vs slightly less direct is of questionable value.

      And it’s essentially misleading, since carbon dioxide:

      1. Is a pollutant and
      2. The vast, vast majority of it comes from those same pollution sources which are directly poisoning us.

      [https://naei.beis.gov.uk/overview/pollutants?pollutant_id=2].