Co-worker who’s an airhead hippie asked if I thought the world was doomed and I said yes and they went on about fucking AI. I said I was far far far more concerned about climate change and she was shocked. I think it’s a level of severity that is just too easy to remain head in the sand over because it requires action outside of going to work and trying to get by and people are tired. Combine that with very very little kmowledge of how the planet works and you’ve got people who will stay as willingly ignorant as possible. At my job I think only me and another person with a geology degree truly understand how fucked this. We explained the carbon silica cycle and it’s disruption being the key cause of every single mass extinction that’s ever happened once on a slow day and after 20 minutes of silence there was an 'Well, they’ll figure something out.". We did, we figured out we have to stop most of the stuff we do in the way we’re doing it, we’ve figured out we can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. I think people are so used to life they see it as default cause they live on a planet full of it. Life is an anomaly. Life is one of the weirdest fucking coincides we’ve ever observed. It would be inconceivable if it weren’t us and a lot of stuff around us. To seriously endanger all of that, to make earth not even earth cause there’s nothing left to call it that anymore, there are no words.