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The ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
- meristohm 2y agoThe best time to act was back then. Second best is now. Time to make some lifestyle changes in keeping with a new story: public good (or luxury, if you prefer), private sufficiency. This flips on its head the previous story focused on private luxuries; no more playing the metaphorical slot machine to be one of the few that can have all that. A meaningful life can be had without playing that game. If you're a keep-up-with-the-Jones' type, review your actions and consider unhooking those compulsions. If you're like me and hyper-focused on particular hobbies, consider assessing the embodied energy, the opportunity cost, and other, lower-impact hobbies from which you might derive the same benefit. If not already familiar, look up mutual aid, participatory democracy, and go out and talk with your neighbors; these are people you'll be helping recover from whatever stressor is next (and perhaps the ongoing ones), and reciprocally so, them for you. I don't have all the answers, ell oh ell, these are just things that I'm choosing to do and which are working well for a subset of people in my neighborhood. What else do you suggest for the next chapter of the human story?