Venting The climate and environment catastrophe really is inevitable.

[frommolecules2stars]

Pure dooming ahead. I request no one comments anything optimistic in this thread. I don't wanna continue seeing idealist rhetoric like that. I just want to vent.

I don't think most of the public truly understands the situation at hand. It is act now or see the end of many species, including humans. Hell, we won't even see it, we will just be dead from wars, starvation, ecological disaster (hurricanes, tsunamis, etc). In one part of myself that frustrates me to no end. In another part of myself, I know I just need to accept it. Capitalism isn't going away any time soon and climate disaster will always exist under that system. It's the end for us. And the end for so many species.

So why keep fucking trying? In fact, why not spread the option to ctb to others and inform them of what is to come? Does anyone want to die like that? I don't. I would rather check off my buck list and then ctb. It's just infinite suffering.

And you know the worst part? The Earth will bounce back. It always has in its entire history. The carbon silicate cycle will eventually be restored, even if it takes millions of years. We don't know if life will survive this mass extinction yet, but even if it doesn't, what's another billion fucking years for some prokaryotes to keep sharing their DNA with each other? It just never ends. Life just keeps going. And who knows, maybe another species will discover how to utilize external energy and industrialization and then another collapse! Humanity's time on the ecological time scale is only a minute- maybe even less. This is how insignificant we are. This is how insignificant I am. It shouldn't matter if I live for my natural lifespan. But in our perspective history has been long, even if only a couple thousand years of recording and documenting. So on this scale of things, of course I'm significant. Even if I feel like my life won't start until I fully complete my transition. I won't even have time to do that. The climate disaster is imminent and I want OFF!

 

[Rabscuttle]

100%. In America climate change is barely even discussed anymore. We are utterly doomed. Humanity has not only been terrorizing itself but also billions of non human animals who lack the agency we have. I hate to say that we as a species deserve this, since we are largely at the mercy of capitalists in the US centric world following WW2, but consumers don't even stop and think and look down at their plate and recognize that they are eating tortured souls. This is the end result of hundreds of millions of years of sentient life hunting and eating other sentient life. Reality is unbelievably cruel, it is unfathomable the suffering that goes on, on a second by second basis. Maybe aliens will come down and give some herbivores, or whales or other beings with some semblance of honor a nudge and let them rebuild the post apocalyptic earth.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Bring it on. Who cares? I sure don't.

 

[notreallybored]

ב''ה, it certainly seems like G-d prefers this.