I'm amazed at how many people who say they are concerned about climate change have this weird, pathological need to believe that we're doomed.
We're only doomed if we (as a society) fail to deal with the problem.
Get over yourself and get to work.
@andrewdessler You get to work. I’m going to curl up on the floor.
@davidho
if you have a dog with a bow tie nearby, I'll allow it
@andrewdessler I think it‘s a lack of hope or an overdose of warnings (without pointing to solutions) that can cause this.
Meanwhile, solar (and wind) take over across the world, it‘s becoming cheaper incl. with storage, and is more resilient.
The most efficient low hanging fruit things individuals can do likely are – eat less meat, vote (if you can).
@andrewdessler Yup, definitely important to get to work:
- The average Billionaire generates 1,000,000 years worth of the average person’s carbon budget every year.
- A small dog has the equivalent annual carbon footprint of driving a V8 Toyota Landcruiser 100,000 kilometres.
COVID was a test of solidarity and collaboration. It is the easy practice exam that we have failed and continue to fail before the more difficult test, climate change.
@andrewdessler I'm watching people dying of preventable cancer but can't afford to pay for it.
Your version of doom and mine might be very different in that regard.
And maybe one can recognise we are doomed and keep trying to help in their own way.
@rowlandm @andrewdessler
It is the exact opposite of being helpful to state that we are doomed, but I expect that you know that regrettably.
@GreenFire @andrewdessler but are our definitions of doomed the same?
It is an abstract concept and what we think of doomed can depend on our self identification and the level of the situation we reach.
Eg. I think of doomed being reached when people without money cannot survive climate change events that are happening now.
You might, as an example, be privileged and say doomed is when climate change effects you so badly you watch your family die from starvation.
That could take you 40 years to reach your definition of doom. Others have already reached their definition of doom.
And others will continue to reach it.