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I have chosen to not have kids and live life like humanity is not gonna make it. I’m done being super worried about if I’m using an aluminum can or if this pape

I have chosen to not have kids and live life like humanity is not gonna make it. I’m done being super worried about if I’m using an aluminum can or if this paper bag is more energy intensive than this plastic one, or if when I fart I’m causing global warming. I let those things cause a good percentage of my daily stress for too long when I have no control over anything and the rest of humanity takes a literal shit on the whole planet. So you know what? I’m not gonna worry anymore. That’s not to say I’m a super polluter now and drive a hellcat on VP fuel and dump paint in the river. My lifestyle hasn’t changed much. But I’m giving up on lying to myself about “it’s gonna get figured out”. I’m glad awareness is out there and all. But greed is more powerful, and I don’t have the time or energy to build a group of protesters against big oil and plastics and shipping shit from China to organize other shit from China people buy on temu. Anyone else given up on keeping track of how much we’re fucking up?

jfengel 2y ago
Not worrying about aluminum cans and paper bags is the right choice. They were never the problem. Some of that was deliberate disinformation by polluters trying to push the problem on you; some was well-meaning environmentalists lacking perspective. However, I would suggest that you should still vote as if humanity is going to survive. We're not going to go extinct, and I think it would be a moral choice to leave a decent planet for whoever is here. Doing that will require collective action, not individual action, and voting is the one way you can influence the collective action. I'll give you another reason to do the same: the people who have engaged in climate disinformation are likely to be making other bad choices as well. Voting for improved climate may not affect your life, but it's likely that you're voting for other issues that do. It's not the most you can do, but it's the biggest result for the least effort.

jfengel 2y ago

Not worrying about aluminum cans and paper bags is the right choice. They were never the problem. Some of that was deliberate disinformation by polluters trying to push the problem on you; some was well-meaning environmentalists lacking perspective. However, I would suggest that you should still vote as if humanity is going to survive. We're not going to go extinct, and I think it would be a moral choice to leave a decent planet for whoever is here. Doing that will require collective action, not individual action, and voting is the one way you can influence the collective action. I'll give you another reason to do the same: the people who have engaged in climate disinformation are likely to be making other bad choices as well. Voting for improved climate may not affect your life, but it's likely that you're voting for other issues that do. It's not the most you can do, but it's the biggest result for the least effort.