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?

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I replace that depression with the depression of being a souless cog in the capitalist machine who only exists in three possible states - working, sleeping, or getting ready to go to work (laundry etc).

    I truly have come to feel like any time spent conscious and not actively increasing profit for the machine is sinful. Laughter? Sinful. Listening to music? Sinful. Dating? Are you out of your fucking mind? I’ll be too tired to make profit tomorrow! Basic healthcare? (pretty much all of my teeth are falling out now) Too much time. Can’t stop making profit for the machine.

    So climate change? Depression about that little recreational pursuit burns daylight and decreases profit. Can’t have that now, can we?

    I wait for the sweet, sweet embrace of death to release me from it (as literally happened to a coworker last week).