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Skeletor cares about your life rule (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 11 months ago by pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe to c/196

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[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

Climate change will create food and water scarcity. Their life or yours.

Idk man. I've been having some huge existential crisis lately and climate change and destruction is just flooding my brain.

Anyone else or just me?

[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Not me. There's nothing I can do to stop it and I refuse to bring kids into it. So my plan if things get really bad is to die and there's no sense worrying about that.

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 9 points 11 months ago

there is nothing I can do to stop it

Wtf. Drive/fly less and bike/walk more. Take the train/collective transport. And if that's too troublesome for you at least vote for politicians who care about climate change and are willing to actually do stuff.

So my plan if things get really bad is to die and there's no sense of worrying about that.

And please that's just so fucking selfish. Even if you don't get any kids there are still people who will have to live with the climate change that you created. For example I and all of my friends, cousins, classmates, etc will have to live with the consequences of climate change.

[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

That's a mountain of assumptions and frankly insufficient attempts to feel like you can make an impact. The literal best way for a person to reduce ecological impact is to not exist.

Secondly, having someone exist for you even if their existence is pure misery is the most selfish thing. It's my body and it's my choice. Anyone who says different is someone who feels entitled to keeping me around regardless of what I want.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 4 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say you're depressed and suicidal. If so, I am sorry for what you're going through and hope you find some way to improve your life and get better.

[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Not really? Like there are moments but I'm talking about if or when things fall apart I don't care to keep trying. It's not because of depression that I'd be ok with death but because I'm not scared to die but I am scared to suffer every day.

I don't think depression has the monopoly on desiring death over suffering.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Living is just a promise that I made"

[-] cinnamonTea@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

While I'm all in favour of individual action, I think it's very reductive to say that that will stop climate change. And even the politicians we explicitly vote for to actually do things don't, or not enough. And it's not like we chose to live in a world that is being destroyed by climate change, so how is it selfish if we leave behind other people who also do? They created it as much as me - barely, because none of us have any real recourse to deal with it.