The United States has been pumping so much groundwater that the ground is beginning to split open across southwestern parts of the country for miles on end.
I get that, and I do my part,… but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that’s the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they’re 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It’s industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
I’ve adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .
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Try to do better than the average human: Try minimizing your personal footprint, participate in some nature related NGO, etc.
Only by acting can we escape this feeling of depression and discouragement 💪.
I get that, and I do my part,… but I recognize the reality that the majority never will, and that’s the depressing part.
I, you, everyone you know, everyone they know and their kids could recycle, buy an EV and be a saint, sipping solar from their rooftops until they’re 70, and the world would still burn like a matchstick in thirty years.
It’s industry, law and utilities that really desperately need the change. Power stations and infrastructure, monetary investment, even.
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I’ve adopted an extremely fatalistic position that for me loops back to optimism: if we are that terminally destructive we will destroy ourselves. And once we do that the planet can move on.
As long as humans keep growing the population on one hand, and on the other hand cannot both individually and collectively decide what is enough then we will have this issue. People never want to talk about population and carrying capacity of our world, but there are limits. I do not follow this org but my wife does https://www.populationbalance.org/ .