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Honestly, you should be preparing, emotionally and logistically, for your death, and the deaths of people, institutions, organizations and nations that you love
by 1attice 3y ago
Honestly, you should be preparing, emotionally and logistically, for your death, and the deaths of people, institutions, organizations and nations that you love. Buddhism is a useful tool in this regard. I recommend it.
- dougmwne 3y agoI agree ultimately of course, but climate change will not be the death of humanity, just the end of our current moment and the beginning of a new one. I don’t think it’s to be feared. There will be suffering, but we already suffer. When the change comes, be the adaptation.
- jakear 3y agoExactly. HN seems the worst of all wrt the apocalyptic fortune telling. Perhaps a group of well-off people would be expected to fear change the most. But to tell anyone else that in 50 years things will be bad... they'd laugh in your face.
- jakear 3y agoBasically any religion is in large part centered around preparing for death.
- arrowsmith 3y agoMaybe the decline of religion is one reason why we've done such a bad job with climate change. If there's no life after death then you have far less reason to care what the world will look like 100 years from now.
- bullfightonmars 3y agoFrom what I can tell the dominant christian religions in the US have turned into death cults seeking to accelerate suffering and death. I don’t think there is any salvation to be had there.
- arrowsmith 3y agoYes, it occurred to me after I wrote my comment that religious belief, in the US at least, correlates with the same side of the political spectrum that cares the least about climate change. So something must be off in my analysis.
- jakear 3y agoWell that came out of left field. Care to elaborate?
- jakear 3y agoThis is probably accurate. Everything seems about the individual nowadays. Lot's of people aren't even having children anymore, preferring instead "travel" and "fun". Why would they give a shit about what will happen in 100 years?
- hotpotamus 3y agoIf there is a life after death, then why would you care about the world? Wouldn't it make more sense to care for the one world that exists? And on a less hypothetical note, I'll point out that in the US at least, the Republican party is both the party of Christianity and global warming denial, so it seems like those two go together just fine.