Are yo scared about the climate crisis?

[karakoltriste]

It scares me a lot. I live in the Mediterranean region, which will be one of the most affected. There are constantly more droughts and more deaths from heat, floods, and other meteorological disasters.

 

[DivineSpark]

Add wildfires to that list. I am not really scared, I live in northern region of europe. I know we are doomed. I just try to enjoy my time before the shit hits the fan. What happens to humanity, I dont care, but I kinda feel sorry for planet, nature and animals.

 

[Withered]

If there's one thing that humans are amazing at it's biting the hand that feeds it.

 

[Average Joe]

I'm sorry that it scares you, and that's a completely natural reaction and how we should all feel.
It's the least of my priorities, and I know how selfish that sounds.

I do feel shame, and I feel bad, especially for other animals. Seeing animals stuck in plastic, having their homes destroyed and contributing to the extinction of species.
I pray that I won't be here for much longer.

 

[Romanticize]

No i'm not scared, not at all. I won't be here in a month or a year maximum, and climate change is a slow process and first effects will be here in many years. Also you are from mediterranean, so even if average temperature goes up by 3-5 celsius, imagine how people in Persian Gulf live. Every day 40-45C and light bulb temperature so high, that even few hours outside can kill you.

 

[karakoltriste]

No i'm not scared, not at all. I won't be here in a month or a year maximum, and climate change is a slow process and first effects will be here in many years. Also you are from mediterranean, so even if average temperature goes up by 3-5 celsius, imagine how people in Persian Gulf live. Every day 40-45C and light bulb temperature so high, that even few hours outside can kill you.

I was born in a place where it's also 45 degrees in the summer. I know there are people in the Global South who have it much worse.
I also want to die before that happens, but it's not that far off. In fact, there are reports (I've prepared and given these talks in multiple places) that say where I was born there will be almost no water by 2030. This will cause people to start migrating (climate refugees already exist) to the north of the Iberian Peninsula and Europe around that time. It will be a disaster, but I hope I'm not alive by then.

I'm sorry that it scares you, and that's a completely natural reaction and how we should all feel.
It's the least of my priorities, and I know how selfish that sounds.

I do feel shame, and I feel bad, especially for other animals. Seeing animals stuck in plastic, having their homes destroyed and contributing to the extinction of species.
I pray that I won't be here for much longer.

Same I feel bad for animals and nature :(

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yes but I'm grateful I'll likely be gone and haven't left offspring to witness what's likely on the horizon.

 

[enjoythesilence]

I'm scared because it symbolizes humanity's greed and stupidity. I'm especially scared of people who think tech is the answer - let's refreeze the Arctic with giant space generators kind of thing.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

It's a bunch of baloney. Hear me out... When I was a kid we were supposedly all going to starve to death due to an ice age that would be here by the late 1970's. Also, overpopulation was going to destroy us. And we were all going to die in a global thermonuclear war. I could go on. It's politics and corporations manipulating everyone. According to science the earth has been through many disasters, mass extinctions, etc. It's flat-earth mentality to think that the earth should always be the same, bubble-wrapped and never changing. It's constantly changing.

 

[Custos]

Fake news

 

[gottacheckout]

I'm to frickin' old to worry about such things anymore. What's the worse that can happen, I die?!?

 

[EternalShore]

I'm in one of the areas where even if it does get as bad as some people say, it'll be more positive than negative~ so no, I'm not scared at all~ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[bankai]

I don't put much stock into that.doomsday scenarios have been a thing from the stone age.

If the governments knew this for a fact they would take action immediately and so would the billionaires.cause they aren't immune either.they're still building million dollar condos up and down the coastline of cities that are going to be supposedly underwater by 2070 lol.think they haven't done their surveys and research?

 

[_Gollum_]

Used to be extremely concerned about climate change, now I'm super chill about it. Most of the stuff about extreme weather events is dubious anyways.

 

[soledad.virgen]

I don't put much stock into that.doomsday scenarios have been a thing from the stone age.

If the governments knew this for a fact they would take action immediately and so would the billionaires.cause they aren't immune either.they're still building million dollar condos up and down the coastline of cities that are going to be supposedly underwater by 2070 lol.think they haven't done their surveys and research?

you're very ignorant lol
no point in caring when I'll be dead soon. i feel bad for the future generations and those who are already experiencing desertification, unprecedented heat waves, and crop failures, but being relatively well off and my ctb plans coming soon mean it's not a concern tor me. shit is pretty fucked!

 

[ElTopo]

It scares me a lot. I live in the Mediterranean region, which will be one of the most affected. There are constantly more droughts and more deaths from heat, floods, and other meteorological disasters.

I live near the Mediterranean too. I'm more worried about food honestly, when the ocean starts warming up over the tipping point sea life will simply die.

I feel bad for the people who will suffer but I'm relieved there is no future anymore. We truly are at the end of history

 

[Pluto]

 

[SVEN]

In the 1970s & 1980s another ice age was coming, then it was "global warming", then when that didn't occur on time the name changed to climate change.
And our politicians fight this alleged problem by flying all over the world to have conferences rather than online meetings; bulldozing miles of forest to build a road for another "save the planet" gabfest and telling everyone else to stay at home and pay more tax.
Just another scam by the rich and powerful to control us.

 

[karakoltriste]

I don't put much stock into that.doomsday scenarios have been a thing from the stone age.

If the governments knew this for a fact they would take action immediately and so would the billionaires.cause they aren't immune either.they're still building million dollar condos up and down the coastline of cities that are going to be supposedly underwater by 2070 lol.think they haven't done their surveys and research?

Oh... I think you trust governments too much. Scientists everywhere have already warned governments.

It's a bunch of baloney. Hear me out... When I was a kid we were supposedly all going to starve to death due to an ice age that would be here by the late 1970's. Also, overpopulation was going to destroy us. And we were all going to die in a global thermonuclear war. I could go on. It's politics and corporations manipulating everyone. According to science the earth has been through many disasters, mass extinctions, etc. It's flat-earth mentality to think that the earth should always be the same, bubble-wrapped and never changing. It's constantly changing

Fake news

Here come the conspiracy theorists!

In the 1970s & 1980s another ice age was coming, then it was "global warming", then when that didn't occur on time the name changed to climate change.
And our politicians fight this alleged problem by flying all over the world to have conferences rather than online meetings; bulldozing miles of forest to build a road for another "save the planet" gabfest and telling everyone else to stay at home and pay more tax.
Just another scam by the rich and powerful to control us.

Global warming exists. So does the climate crisis. It's the fault of the rich and the governments. But it exists. I'm not a conformist who's going to stay home.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Global warming exists. So does the climate crisis. ...

It's entirely possible to believe the average temperature of the earth is increasing, and even to accept that maybe it's mostly caused by human activity, and at the same time, honestly say "it's overhyped and I'm not getting sucked in and manipulated". The earth has been hotter and colder before, mass extinctions have happened before and will again. meh

 

[avalon_]

It's entirely possible to believe the average temperature of the earth is increasing, and even to accept that maybe it's mostly caused by human activity, and at the same time, honestly say "it's overhyped and I'm not getting sucked in and manipulated". The earth has been hotter and colder before, mass extinctions have happened before and will again. meh

Radical stupidity on display

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Kind of shocked how many people are saying they don't believe in it. I watch the news every night and see all the natural disasters and I'm amazed the entire world hasn't been destroyed by now.
And here in the US it's like the same areas are getting hit after hit after hit.

Yes, personally I am scared

 

[GlassMoon]

I am also scared by it. I tried a bit in recent years to produce less CO2 but now that I'm busy with depression and seeing most of my neighbors driving around in their SUVs and billionaires taking space trips for fun I'm slowly giving up on it. I take longer showers again and waste more plastic. I'm just resigned and jaded at this point.

Worst feeling for me was when they were putting activists from "The last generation" on trial for putting orange paint on the Brandenburg Gate. Should have spent that time chasing real climate villains and left the red paint as a mark for all of us to see, that time is running up... also I'm fed up with people worrying about power lines disturbing landscape aesthetics when in reality those landscapes are endangered by climate change and the power lines are needed to use renewable energy generated in wind farms at the sea in factories located in Southern Germany...

 

[quietwoods]

It's entirely possible to believe the average temperature of the earth is increasing, and even to accept that maybe it's mostly caused by human activity, and at the same time, honestly say "it's overhyped and I'm not getting sucked in and manipulated". The earth has been hotter and colder before, mass extinctions have happened before and will again. meh

I've seen this kinda argument get thrown around a lot, and even used it myself 10-15 years ago. It is true events like this have happened in earth's past history. We've survived them.

The issue is mass extinctions and temperatures increases have never happened this fast outside of massive ecological disasters like meteor strikes or mega volcanoes erupting.

The recovery from these events has taken thousands to millions of years. Will humanity end? No. Will the world end? No.

It's getting harder and more expensive to grow food. That's the primary concern. Crops are dying. Oceans are acidifying, killing what's in them we eat.

The easiest example of this coffee. The corporations that grow and sell them are currently panicking and trying find an alternative strain because the arabica blend is dying in droves because it can't stand the heat waves and droughts that are becoming more and more regular. Easily searchable online.

Can also search the agricultural issues with drought and heat affecting California.

It's plausible to wave away the doomsday scenarios and fire tornadoes.

It's difficult to wave away the mass extinctions. We are part of the ecosystem and the food chain. If those collapse, our species will collapse with it. Millions, if not billions will be faced with at the very least unnaffordable food prices, and at worst famine and death. It would be a mass extinction of humans. It would be subjecting the human race to thousands to millions of years of food shortages. Hydroponics are not capable of feeding the current human population.

That's what concerns me, not that it's getting a little hotter every year.

 

[Bad Karma]

yes absolutely. i see the effects all around me. the ocean is changing, starfish and other marine life are disappearing, likely due to ocean acidification and warming waters. tide pools are emptier, kelp forests are thinning, and sea otters and orcas that once scattered our coastlines here are becoming rare sights to see. wildfires are getting worse every year, longer seasons, hotter burns, and smoke choking the air for weeks.

rivers that once ran full and fast are drying up due to prolonged drought and shrinking snowpacks in the mountains. salmon runs are collapsing, some areas have seen 90% population drops because the water is too warm or too shallow for them to spawn. even the rain, which used to feel constant, now comes all at once in flash floods or not at all for weeks.

there is less snow in the winters, which means less water in the summer. temperatures keep breaking records. heat domes like the one in 2021 killed hundreds and devastated crops and wildlife. forests are dying from beetle infestations that used to be kept in check by cold winters, but now spread freely.

everything feels out of balance, like nature is sounding the alarm and no ones listening.

 

[quietwoods]

yes absolutely. i see the effects all around me. the ocean is changing, starfish and other marine life are disappearing, likely due to ocean acidification and warming waters. tide pools are emptier, kelp forests are thinning, and sea otters and orcas that once scattered our coastlines here are becoming rare sights to see. wildfires are getting worse every year, longer seasons, hotter burns, and smoke choking the air for weeks.

rivers that once ran full and fast are drying up due to prolonged drought and shrinking snowpacks in the mountains. salmon runs are collapsing, some areas have seen 90% population drops because the water is too warm or too shallow for them to spawn. even the rain, which used to feel constant, now comes all at once in flash floods or not at all for weeks.

there is less snow in the winters, which means less water in the summer. temperatures keep breaking records. heat domes like the one in 2021 killed hundreds and devastated crops and wildlife. forests are dying from beetle infestations that used to be kept in check by cold winters, but now spread freely.

everything feels out of balance, like nature is sounding the alarm and no ones listening.

Well thanks for confirming my tl:dr theory

 

[Seered Doom]

Not scared scared per se, more just worried because want to go on own terms, not drown or boil or get sucked up by tornado outside of own will

 

[karakoltriste]

I am also scared by it. I tried a bit in recent years to produce less CO2 but now that I'm busy with depression and seeing most of my neighbors driving around in their SUVs and billionaires taking space trips for fun I'm slowly giving up on it. I take longer showers again and waste more plastic. I'm just resigned and jaded at this point.

Worst feeling for me was when they were putting activists from "The last generation" on trial for putting orange paint on the Brandenburg Gate. Should have spent that time chasing real climate villains and left the red paint as a mark for all of us to see, that time is running up... also I'm fed up with people worrying about power lines disturbing landscape aesthetics when in reality those landscapes are endangered by climate change and the power lines are needed to use renewable energy generated in wind farms at the sea in factories located in Southern Germany...

I know the Letzte Generation! I was chatting with one of its members. I'm also waiting for a trial for throwing washable paint, and just yesterday I received a fine for sneaking into an airport, about €800. I have 18€ on my bank account lmao