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Man… fuuuuuck. I appreciate you summarizing the majority of bad stuff we’ve created and are exacerbating. I was already familiar or aware of all that but this w

Man… fuuuuuck. I appreciate you summarizing the majority of bad stuff we’ve created and are exacerbating. I was already familiar or aware of all that but this will help me communicate with others, “here read this person’s comments” I have young children. At this point I hope they have a society, fuck having a “better life”, that ain’t happening. But it does force me to focus on what’s important. If we regress to a lifestyle comparable to the first third of the 20th century, we can handle that. We’ll miss regularly working electricity and indoor plumbing but you gets used to it quick. Just go camping for a week It certainly sucks, and it’s frustrating that it isn’t our fault.

eesmith 2y ago
> We’ll miss regularly working electricity and indoor plumbing but you gets used to it quick. Just go camping for a week Think more like Asheville, which has running water again, several weeks after the hurricane, but the water isn't yet potable and likely won't be until December. Consumerism has hooked itself tightly around our hedonic treadmill. Capitalism since the environmental movement of the 1960s has figured out we mostly care about problems we see, so has done its best to hide all the environmental and labor problems and make it disconnected from a single person's actions.