Its pretty grim feeling like everything is going to get a lot worse and being powerless to stop it.
The endless apocalyptic fearporn of climate change that the media pumps out cannot be helping. Corporations responsible for pollution should be the ones living in fear, instead its Joe public!
mother earth will be fine when we all fuck ourselves off, i have absolutely zero fears for our planet
> Jennifer didn’t complete her PhD on the disappearing ice sheets – although she hopes to one day return to it.
> She is now living in Perthshire with her mother and has found that mountain biking has helped her achieve some peace of mind.
It must be nice to be able to put your education and career on hold so you can protest and live with your mum.
I get what she’s saying about the severity of the issue but it feels like ‘anxiety’ is a loaded term these days, especially when applied to people who have the privilege of being supported by others (in this case her mum) to be able to function.
I’m mainly angry about this, and that anger comes from the fact that 2 things have become clear over the years:
1. Science loving liberals do not in fact care about science when acting on the science would be disruptive to capitalist status quo.
2. Westerners in general appear to have embraced the cult of individualism to the extent that instead of acting together to combat climate change, we’re each waiting to find out if climate change will impact us, individually.
To be very clear, we can absolutely combat climate change. It means no more consumerism, excess wealth, wealth inequality, or capitalism in general, but we can reverse what we seeing happening. Remember that as things get worse and we continue to do nothing.
Would explain why she’s holding a sign saying “no nature”
Personally, I have just stopped worrying. Not because it isn’t worrying, but because there is very little I can do as an individual. If the apocalypse is imminent, we’re screwed anyway so may as well enjoy the ride rather than wasting your time worrying.
> no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying
Honestly this is PhD student life. I think we all want to run away and work as a waitress or manual labourer at some point. I hope she feels better soon.
Climate change is harming my **physical** health, never mind the damage to my mental health.
When I was a kid and I learned about the 2012 conspiracy/phenomenon that the whole world was going to end per the Mayan calendar, I was terrified for the future. Obviously it never happened but the anxiety and dread that I experienced definitely had an effect on me. The other day when I read [this article ](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65839060.amp) I felt the same wave of anxiety and despair wash over me. As someone who is a bit of a control freak it was difficult for me to deal with as there is literally nothing I can do to make a difference. So to me it’s no surprise that people’s mental health is going to take a massive hit when things like this pop up.
One thing never changes…
Human arrogance towards the fact that Humans are an animal species… Humans always like to see themselves as something far more… But often too much more than an animal.
Yet… Urbanised humans (the more densely Populated the more it shows) show similar behavioural and medical effects as animals in captivity (from zoos to cages…).
Animals also are negatively impacted by climate change beyond just losing their habitats. It changes their life patterns and can cause stress due to temperatures… But somehow we do not expect humans to be negatively mentally affected by the changing climate when animals are…. Again…..
(And it’s not a worry which is on your yes, not even throughs… You just seem unsettled and alert)
I mean, obviously?
Therapy fails to solve the issue. It only tries to teach you how to cope with a collapsing climate.
Anyone struggling with it though, the solution is action. Get yourself involved in the movement. It helps with that feeling of powerlessness.
I take it she’s doing what she can and forgoes, environmentally expensive stuff like air travel
BTW, this sounds like a recognised depressive illness
People need to get a grip of reality instead of melting all over the place
I think it’s possible to have *too much* empathy and care too much about certain things. And when it’s things that you can’t really affect, this is the outcome.
There are things we can change and things we cannot. There is no use in worrying about the latter. We will just need to adapt.
If anyone follows climate scientists on Twitter you’d know we’re in for a wild ride over the next few years. El Niño combined with the current temps of North Atlantic means the average global ocean temperatures have recently sky rocketed, likely means we’ve got some hot years ahead.
It harming your physical health too.
Your brain is full of plastic and a thousand unknown harmful substances belched into the air by people who knew they were poisoning you.
Just make personal changes and live your best life. There are big things that need to change in the world that are out of our hands. We in the UK are slowly moving to renewable energy, electric cars etc
Other parts of the world still have to advance to 1st world standards to start making those co2 changes
So until China, India, Brazil sort themselves out on a world scale things won’t get any better. China plan to open 100 new coal power stations in the near future is one example of the short term action elsewhere
Until China, India and Brazil buck their ideas up, the small gains we make are wiped out 100x
It’s a bit like in the 1970’s when all the ‘experts’ were saying we were going to go into the next Ice Age. There was a lot of panic for a few years then everyone realised that there was nothing we could do if it did actually happen. So we all got on with our lives and stopped worrying.
Poor can’t stop the rich from burning anything they like fire and money too much.
I just wanted to have a good life, to be honest. Head off to uni, do a good subject, have fun in my 20s and 30s while advancing my career, and get a nice place to stay while I live out the rest of my life. That’s what I was told would happen. I don’t think I’m asking for much.
But like, am I even going to see the end of my 20s? Now when I think of my future, it’s all just collapse. Climate change, AI unemployment, nuclear war, biodiversity loss, pandemics, food shortages, god knows what else. There’s nothing I can do to stop it. Things get exponentially worse and I’m just caught up in the current being dragged towards a godawful future.
Makes me wonder why I even bother with all this. Don’t need savings or a career if the lives we live will collapse in a decade. This is the last time of my life I’ll ever have that’s semi-normal and I’m wasting it. Honestly, seeing how shit things are going to get, I wonder why I don’t just taste a gun barrel while my life is still somewhat good. Like, there’d better be some kind of afterlife seeing how shit this life is.
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Its pretty grim feeling like everything is going to get a lot worse and being powerless to stop it.
The endless apocalyptic fearporn of climate change that the media pumps out cannot be helping. Corporations responsible for pollution should be the ones living in fear, instead its Joe public!
mother earth will be fine when we all fuck ourselves off, i have absolutely zero fears for our planet
> Jennifer didn’t complete her PhD on the disappearing ice sheets – although she hopes to one day return to it.
> She is now living in Perthshire with her mother and has found that mountain biking has helped her achieve some peace of mind.
It must be nice to be able to put your education and career on hold so you can protest and live with your mum.
I get what she’s saying about the severity of the issue but it feels like ‘anxiety’ is a loaded term these days, especially when applied to people who have the privilege of being supported by others (in this case her mum) to be able to function.
I’m mainly angry about this, and that anger comes from the fact that 2 things have become clear over the years:
1. Science loving liberals do not in fact care about science when acting on the science would be disruptive to capitalist status quo.
2. Westerners in general appear to have embraced the cult of individualism to the extent that instead of acting together to combat climate change, we’re each waiting to find out if climate change will impact us, individually.
To be very clear, we can absolutely combat climate change. It means no more consumerism, excess wealth, wealth inequality, or capitalism in general, but we can reverse what we seeing happening. Remember that as things get worse and we continue to do nothing.
Would explain why she’s holding a sign saying “no nature”
Personally, I have just stopped worrying. Not because it isn’t worrying, but because there is very little I can do as an individual. If the apocalypse is imminent, we’re screwed anyway so may as well enjoy the ride rather than wasting your time worrying.
> no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying
Honestly this is PhD student life. I think we all want to run away and work as a waitress or manual labourer at some point. I hope she feels better soon.
Climate change is harming my **physical** health, never mind the damage to my mental health.
When I was a kid and I learned about the 2012 conspiracy/phenomenon that the whole world was going to end per the Mayan calendar, I was terrified for the future. Obviously it never happened but the anxiety and dread that I experienced definitely had an effect on me. The other day when I read [this article ](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65839060.amp) I felt the same wave of anxiety and despair wash over me. As someone who is a bit of a control freak it was difficult for me to deal with as there is literally nothing I can do to make a difference. So to me it’s no surprise that people’s mental health is going to take a massive hit when things like this pop up.
One thing never changes…
Human arrogance towards the fact that Humans are an animal species… Humans always like to see themselves as something far more… But often too much more than an animal.
Yet… Urbanised humans (the more densely Populated the more it shows) show similar behavioural and medical effects as animals in captivity (from zoos to cages…).
Animals also are negatively impacted by climate change beyond just losing their habitats. It changes their life patterns and can cause stress due to temperatures… But somehow we do not expect humans to be negatively mentally affected by the changing climate when animals are…. Again…..
(And it’s not a worry which is on your yes, not even throughs… You just seem unsettled and alert)
I mean, obviously?
Therapy fails to solve the issue. It only tries to teach you how to cope with a collapsing climate.
Anyone struggling with it though, the solution is action. Get yourself involved in the movement. It helps with that feeling of powerlessness.
I take it she’s doing what she can and forgoes, environmentally expensive stuff like air travel
BTW, this sounds like a recognised depressive illness
People need to get a grip of reality instead of melting all over the place
The people that tell us we need to change to save the planet, [live like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE).
Also, the constant predictions that don’t happen don’t help.
Don’t shoot the messenger, but here’s a list of predictions with sources.
[https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/](https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/)
I think it’s possible to have *too much* empathy and care too much about certain things. And when it’s things that you can’t really affect, this is the outcome.
There are things we can change and things we cannot. There is no use in worrying about the latter. We will just need to adapt.
If anyone follows climate scientists on Twitter you’d know we’re in for a wild ride over the next few years. El Niño combined with the current temps of North Atlantic means the average global ocean temperatures have recently sky rocketed, likely means we’ve got some hot years ahead.
It harming your physical health too.
Your brain is full of plastic and a thousand unknown harmful substances belched into the air by people who knew they were poisoning you.
Just make personal changes and live your best life. There are big things that need to change in the world that are out of our hands. We in the UK are slowly moving to renewable energy, electric cars etc
Other parts of the world still have to advance to 1st world standards to start making those co2 changes
So until China, India, Brazil sort themselves out on a world scale things won’t get any better. China plan to open 100 new coal power stations in the near future is one example of the short term action elsewhere
Until China, India and Brazil buck their ideas up, the small gains we make are wiped out 100x
It’s a bit like in the 1970’s when all the ‘experts’ were saying we were going to go into the next Ice Age. There was a lot of panic for a few years then everyone realised that there was nothing we could do if it did actually happen. So we all got on with our lives and stopped worrying.
Poor can’t stop the rich from burning anything they like fire and money too much.
I just wanted to have a good life, to be honest. Head off to uni, do a good subject, have fun in my 20s and 30s while advancing my career, and get a nice place to stay while I live out the rest of my life. That’s what I was told would happen. I don’t think I’m asking for much.
But like, am I even going to see the end of my 20s? Now when I think of my future, it’s all just collapse. Climate change, AI unemployment, nuclear war, biodiversity loss, pandemics, food shortages, god knows what else. There’s nothing I can do to stop it. Things get exponentially worse and I’m just caught up in the current being dragged towards a godawful future.
Makes me wonder why I even bother with all this. Don’t need savings or a career if the lives we live will collapse in a decade. This is the last time of my life I’ll ever have that’s semi-normal and I’m wasting it. Honestly, seeing how shit things are going to get, I wonder why I don’t just taste a gun barrel while my life is still somewhat good. Like, there’d better be some kind of afterlife seeing how shit this life is.