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    1 year ago

    Ask yourself “where is the greatest leverage to solve this problem?”. If you think the fastest way to turn the climate ship around is to convince 7ish billion individuals to go vegan, and ride bikes… Good luck!

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        1 year ago

        Hmm. I’m not really banking on anything. I’m just surviving. Hoping for the best but expecting something less optimal. I’m not a doomer because believe too much in love. Not that it will save us, but that it’s the only thing that truly makes life worth living. Whatever it is, we’re all in it together.

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            1 year ago

            I think if you love yourself and others, then it is obvious what is good and what isn’t.

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                I mean, sure. But you can’t just convince a critical mass of people to understand love. If we’re gonna turn the ship, we’ll need to find something else to leverage. Regulations seem like the most obvious point to me.

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                    1 year ago

                    What do you mean? Government. This is the only real chance given the scale and timeliness of the change needed.

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        1 year ago

        Huh? You don’t know anything about what I’m doing or not.

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          “I’m not really banking on anything. I’m just surviving.” Sorry if I misunderstood but that sounds like you’re not helping?

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            I’m not banking on anything, as in “I don’t have strong faith in any proposed solutions”. I’m just surviving in the sense that, like so many of us, I’m doing my best to maintain my physical and mental health during these difficult times. For me, like so many of us, “doing something” me to maintain my physical and mental health.

            I don’t blame you for misunderstanding me. I can see how my previous comment could have come off that way. I do also want to say though, that “not helping” is okay too. If you don’t have the capacity right now to do anything but exist, I understand. It’s fuckin tough out there for a lot of people.

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      We all ought to focus on that whole 7 billion thing…or wait, isn’t it 8 now? Will be 9 soon.

      Infinite population growth in a world of finite resources is not, and never will be, possible. Less people = more resources per person and higher quality of life.