It’s too late or not too late depending on what outcome you’re aiming for.
The outcome “everything will be fine” has come and gone long ago. Best we can hope for is limiting the amount of digits used to write down the casualties now, lessen the impact. Yay. Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm on this but I’ve spent 5 decades watching this. 5 decades ago I was already aware of climate change. Humanity was aware for over 120 years already!
And what have we done to lessen the impact?
You’d expect me to say “zero” but that would be wrong. We made it worse. Year after year. Remember those Paris climate accords that had zero binding resolutions, so was for nothing anyways?
Yeah, not only did no country do anything at all, pretty much every country increased their carbon emissions since. They didn’t lower it insufficiently, no, they fucking. Made. It. Worse…
Which at least was within my expectations because back then I was on Reddit and wrote about those accords that the result would be that by now things actually were accelerating instead of slowing down.
I was told by kind strangers like you that I was a doomer and that it wasn’t too late and that we needed to lessen impact and…
I’ve heard all of this hundreds of times before and I can tell you, for as long as we allow billionaires and dictators to exist, we ARE doomed.
Even if humanity starts today working aggressively to lower CO2 emissions, it’s still a big question if and how many of us will be able to yo survive.
But humanity ain’t doing shit, ever, billionaires will make sure of that because they need their money.
So pardon my cynicism, pardon my anger and doomsday thinking but we as a species with around 8 or so billion members, allowed a tiny sliver of psychopaths, a few tens of thousands or so, to fuck all of us over for good. We are possibly the only place in the universe with life, let alone “intelligent” life, and we have allowed a tiny group to destroy that forever.
Changing our society and earth to be more healthy? Well, let’s just do it. It’s fun.
Playing with power, learning about batteries, vegan food, open source software and the menstrual cycle are interesting. Be open, learn from your surrounding and try to improve it where you can. As I said: it is hella fun.
It’s not too late. We should do everything we can to lessen the impact
It’s too late or not too late depending on what outcome you’re aiming for.
The outcome “everything will be fine” has come and gone long ago. Best we can hope for is limiting the amount of digits used to write down the casualties now, lessen the impact. Yay. Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm on this but I’ve spent 5 decades watching this. 5 decades ago I was already aware of climate change. Humanity was aware for over 120 years already!
And what have we done to lessen the impact?
You’d expect me to say “zero” but that would be wrong. We made it worse. Year after year. Remember those Paris climate accords that had zero binding resolutions, so was for nothing anyways?
Yeah, not only did no country do anything at all, pretty much every country increased their carbon emissions since. They didn’t lower it insufficiently, no, they fucking. Made. It. Worse…
Which at least was within my expectations because back then I was on Reddit and wrote about those accords that the result would be that by now things actually were accelerating instead of slowing down.
I was told by kind strangers like you that I was a doomer and that it wasn’t too late and that we needed to lessen impact and…
I’ve heard all of this hundreds of times before and I can tell you, for as long as we allow billionaires and dictators to exist, we ARE doomed.
Even if humanity starts today working aggressively to lower CO2 emissions, it’s still a big question if and how many of us will be able to yo survive.
But humanity ain’t doing shit, ever, billionaires will make sure of that because they need their money.
So pardon my cynicism, pardon my anger and doomsday thinking but we as a species with around 8 or so billion members, allowed a tiny sliver of psychopaths, a few tens of thousands or so, to fuck all of us over for good. We are possibly the only place in the universe with life, let alone “intelligent” life, and we have allowed a tiny group to destroy that forever.
And I have to be optimistic?
How?
I always wonder: too late for what?
Everybody dying? We’ll all eventually do…
Changing our society and earth to be more healthy? Well, let’s just do it. It’s fun.
Playing with power, learning about batteries, vegan food, open source software and the menstrual cycle are interesting. Be open, learn from your surrounding and try to improve it where you can. As I said: it is hella fun.