Discussion Does climate change make anyone else want to CTB?

[sunnydaysahead]

I read so much shit about climate change that really depresses me. Nobody wants to do anything about it. Politicians fucking suck. My own grandparents (my legal guardians) don't believe in it so I really have no one to turn to about my anxieties. I don't want to live in a world where, if I keep living till I'm old, the weather is so bad that it kills people (not that it's not doing that already.) Anyways, I don't really want to have a job, being a cog in a machine that will chew me and spit me out when I'm 65 or whatever. Climate change only makes my future seems worse. And I have to deal with my family not being in contact anymore because they don't want me as a trans man, as well. I don't think anything will get any better, honestly. Life isn't a gift for me, it's just something you have to go through. This may be more of a vent than a discussion, so I'm sorry about that.

But, back on topic. Does climate change make you want to CTB more than you would without it? Sorry this was so rambley.

 

[SunnysSunset]

Yup. When I think about how the world is gonna look like in the future I'm like fuck it what's the point? I'll just give up rn before I have to suffer through the declining state of the world in the future. Lol

 

[sunnydaysahead]

Yup. When I think about how the world is gonna look like in the future I'm like fuck it what's the point? I'll just give up rn before I have to suffer through the declining state of the world in the future. Lol

I feel you. I love your profile picture, as well.

 

[SunnysSunset]

I feel you. I love your profile picture, as well.

Thank you. I love Sayori in your pfp too :)

 

[Kurushii]

Climate change makes me want to ctb too. I'm sensitive to heat so living in a world that's even hotter than it already is just sounds like pure torture. And what makes it all worse is the governments KNEW this was happening, yet they did nothing about, because money is more important to them. Even now, not enough is being done. This world is already awful and climate change is just another reason why.

 

[mafuyu]

I didn't even bother reading this post because it's so god damn depressing I can't bother. I know all the facts. At this point I feel like we all just know too much, and the fact that we care is going to be our downfall. I can't keep reading all of this shit about how the rich don't care so fuck the poor.

 

[Bluebunnysky]

The climate is fine; you've drunk the Kool-Aid

 

[LocalAngel]

Not just climate change, but the entire colapse of the world as we know it. i wouldn't be surprised to see war suddenly break out. Or another plague. what's the fucking point when I'm unable to ever heal? i don't want to heal anymore.

 

[UntilTheLast]

I'm sorry that your family chose their closedminded beliefs over you. No one should ever fucking do that.
It would make me not want to have kids, if I didn't already not want to have kids (hell fucking no). I doubt the world would last long enough for them to grow up very much. I remember back when I truly came to recognize that the world was doomed, and that human nature never changes, and truly stopped seeing people and the world through rose colored glasses. I spent like a year with no hope at all - dropping trash all over my apartment because when I asked myself "why should I bother moving 7 feet over to the trash can" I literally didn't have an answer. But for me, ultimately, I've come to a place where the inevitability of the future doesn't change the 'now' for me. Let the world burn - standing against that is like standing against a storm because you think you can fight it off. All that I care about is my actual life, right now, with all the good and the bad and the fucking miserable and the kinda okay sometimes.

 

[OutOfTheVoid]

I read so much shit about climate change that really depresses me. Nobody wants to do anything about it. Politicians fucking suck. My own grandparents (my legal guardians) don't believe in it so I really have no one to turn to about my anxieties. I don't want to live in a world where, if I keep living till I'm old, the weather is so bad that it kills people (not that it's not doing that already.) Anyways, I don't really want to have a job, being a cog in a machine that will chew me and spit me out when I'm 65 or whatever. Climate change only makes my future seems worse. And I have to deal with my family not being in contact anymore because they don't want me as a trans man, as well. I don't think anything will get any better, honestly. Life isn't a gift for me, it's just something you have to go through. This may be more of a vent than a discussion, so I'm sorry about that.

But, back on topic. Does climate change make you want to CTB more than you would without it? Sorry this was so rambley.

yeah, climate change has been one of many reasons why ive wanted to ctb. i have other reasons that are bigger factors for me right now, but it is still part of the overall horror in this world that makes me want to escape it. i also dont want to contribute to climate change but thats basically unavoidable if you live in society ("theres no ethical consumption under capitalism" and such), and i feel powerless to stop it. so i worry maybe i do more harm by existing. thats why ive tried to live solely for others instead of myself. but idk if i can sustain that anymore

 

[hellispink]

It doesn't surprise me. Humans destroy everything they put their hands on. It is just meant to get worse.

 

[Euthanza]

I'm glad I have the means to end my pains before the CC becomes unbearable. It's just one of so many external reasons.

 

[MlKE]

I think the climate hysteria is just another way for tptb to rob everyone of what wealth and freedom we still have and a distraction from more urgent social and environmental issues. It doesn't make sense that something so serious (supposedly) would be left up to democratic decisions. If you drove a car you wouldn't run it off a bridge because your three passengers asked you to, you'd drive normally and save your own life. If the climate would kill everyone including tptb, they wouldn't shrug and go to their graves along with the plebes, they'd just act and save themselves.

One example I do worry about that I never hear mentioned is the fuckhuge amounts of plastics that are spilled out into the oceans and generally everywhere people and nature intersect, especially countries with weak or no regulations for handling waste. This then breaks down into microplastics which then do not break down, but are consumed by smal organisms and move up the food chain polluting all life, the effects of which we are yet to learn.

I think this view is even more depressing too, if they get their way as they are used to, you can't even enjoy minor things in life like cheap and easy travel to your recreational activities, maintaining the living standards you had for all your life, eating whatever you want etc. It will be living in pods, eating the bugs, while they themselves travel around the world with private jets, for fancy dinners and discussing more ways to ruin whatever someone might still find enjoyable.
Let's hope there will still at least be buses left to catch in the future.

 

[notadaisy]

knowing that the world is just deteriorating while ur in it sucks and we can't do much about it. it's true that not much people even seem to care about our own planet. everything is just getting destroyed, wasted, rotting. how depressing. it does make me want to CTB more, than if it doesn't exist.

( off topic already, but i see you've played DDLC? nice pfp u got there! )

 

[sunnydaysahead]

knowing that the world is just deteriorating while ur in it sucks and we can't do much about it. it's true that not much people even seem to care about our own planet. everything is just getting destroyed, wasted, rotting. how depressing. it does make me want to CTB more, than if it doesn't exist.

( off topic already, but i see you've played DDLC? nice pfp u got there! )

I've played it,,, maybe 3 times? Thank you! Yuri is my favorite but Sayori seems more fitting lol. I agree with you as well

 

[anchored_drowning]

I read so much shit about climate change that really depresses me. Nobody wants to do anything about it. Politicians fucking suck. My own grandparents (my legal guardians) don't believe in it so I really have no one to turn to about my anxieties. I don't want to live in a world where, if I keep living till I'm old, the weather is so bad that it kills people (not that it's not doing that already.) Anyways, I don't really want to have a job, being a cog in a machine that will chew me and spit me out when I'm 65 or whatever. Climate change only makes my future seems worse. And I have to deal with my family not being in contact anymore because they don't want me as a trans man, as well. I don't think anything will get any better, honestly. Life isn't a gift for me, it's just something you have to go through. This may be more of a vent than a discussion, so I'm sorry about that.

But, back on topic. Does climate change make you want to CTB more than you would without it? Sorry this was so rambley.

I'm currently studying environmental science in college, and every day this semester I learn one fact that makes me feel like theres no saving this place and one fact that gives me hope. Trust me when I say there are countless people who work day in and day out studying our environment and developing new technologies in order to help. On the other hand, the main problem with the way we're addressing climate change isn't science, it's policy.
We have all the knowledge and technology we need in order to prevent further damage to our environment, but governments either refuse to implement those things, provide improper funding to actually solve the problem, or stand by and allow the ones doing the most damage (coorporations, fossil fuel companies, all the big baddies we hear about) to continue their harmful practices.

It's infuriating, but also fascinating. I'd recommend watching Philosophy Tube's most recent video titled "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System." () The video is mainly about the failings of the British healthcare system in regards to trans healthcare, but more largely talks about the philosophy of why large institutions are so difficult to change.

I don't have and answer as to whether humans will do the action we need to to prevent further climate damage, but the mindset I go with is that humans are procrastinators. Historically we have waited until the last possible moment to do the change we needed to, but we eventually did and here we are. Maybe its just false optimism, but its the only thing that keeps me sane learning about the state of crisis our planet is in.

And besides the environment stuff, I'm also a trans man. I'm really sorry your family is not accepting, I get it dude. I hope you're able to find chosen family that supports you how you deserve and need. Transitioning has only made my life better, despite having family cut me off and dealing with transphobia in a largely Christian area. It's hard no doubt, but I haven't regretted it for a second.

 

[sunnydaysahead]

I'm currently studying environmental science in college, and every day this semester I learn one fact that makes me feel like theres no saving this place and one fact that gives me hope. Trust me when I say there are countless people who work day in and day out studying our environment and developing new technologies in order to help. On the other hand, the main problem with the way we're addressing climate change isn't science, it's policy.
We have all the knowledge and technology we need in order to prevent further damage to our environment, but governments either refuse to implement those things, provide improper funding to actually solve the problem, or stand by and allow the ones doing the most damage (coorporations, fossil fuel companies, all the big baddies we hear about) to continue their harmful practices.

It's infuriating, but also fascinating. I'd recommend watching Philosophy Tube's most recent video titled "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System." () The video is mainly about the failings of the British healthcare system in regards to trans healthcare, but more largely talks about the philosophy of why large institutions are so difficult to change.

I don't have and answer as to whether humans will do the action we need to to prevent further climate damage, but the mindset I go with is that humans are procrastinators. Historically we have waited until the last possible moment to do the change we needed to, but we eventually did and here we are. Maybe its just false optimism, but its the only thing that keeps me sane learning about the state of crisis our planet is in.

And besides the environment stuff, I'm also a trans man. I'm really sorry your family is not accepting, I get it dude. I hope you're able to find chosen family that supports you how you deserve and need. Transitioning has only made my life better, despite having family cut me off and dealing with transphobia in a largely Christian area. It's hard no doubt, but I haven't regretted it for a second.

Thank you so much. I hope so too, with the last part. I'll give Philosphy Tube's video a shot.

 

[ughnvm]

yes it's horrible that no one gives a shit about climate change but it's not as bad as it was in 20th century, I mean factories that time.. but still they're fuckin everything up for future gens

 

[almostamirror]

yes. and it makes me feel so helpless and insignificant knowing there's absolutely nothing i can do about it, yet i'll still get ragged on for not doing my part if i catch a flight or forget to recycle

 

[sadDaysAhead]

What is coming will be much worse then climate change and I will not be here for it :(

 

[LunaXCBN]

I don't think I've read anything I agree as much as this.

It is genuinely sad to see the world in this state, however it doesn't depress me as much as it makes me angry.
I hope to not be there to see it get worse, but considering my goals I probably will. Very unfortunate times we live in.

 

[BillyBob]

Climate Change is complete rubbish and you have been gobbling up all the propagander that the government and Mainstream Media has been putting out.
I would recommend reading both sides of of the arguements to come to a real conclusion.

 

[Faejin]

Every summer I get reminded that the next one is going to be even hotter. So, yes. I do not care all that much about the over all climate, but just how comfortably I am able to exist.

 

[raindrinker30]

I don't care about climate change I care about pollution. If there was not so much pollution climate change wouldn't happen anyway. Also, microplastics are polluting every living organism. Not to mention all the chemicals they add to our food and water. I blame capitalism for these things

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yes- it certainly adds to my want to be out of here. Really- all I'm going to do with the rest of my life is pollute the world. I'm also sick of feeling guilty about it. I'm just SO thankful I didn't have children. It's future generations I feel REALLY sorry and worried for. Still, at the same time, I'm selfish. I just want to be free from all the worry about this place

 

[valkyrie]

i don't see it affecting me in my lifetime, i know it's selfish but i don't care

 

[Airie]

Maybe, but it is more like climate change makes me feel more comfortable about catching the bus. To me, living is less valuable if the environment I will live in will go/is going to shit.

 

[randy]

Nature is going to take care of it. At one point all the carbon was in the air and nature (early plants) put it into the ground over millions of years.

Humans have put it back into the air. Over the next few million years nature will put it back in the ground. Gonna suck for humans and a lot of current species, but the earth will bounce back. Life will always thrive on earth - in some form or another

 

[FadingFast2023]

Get off social media, you will be happier. The climate is fine, but a lot of politicians are counting on pumping out bullshit to keep you in a state of depression and panic so you keep believing you need them to save us. It's sad what the media has done to people ... reading the replies in this thread is heartbreaking.

 

[Sakura94]

I mean I was told it was going to be bad when I was in school and it's still more or less the same. There has been issues with flooding but some is caused by building too much and government just being terrible generally continually cutting costs. Honestly by the time it's bad in itself and not just incompetency I think AI and our tech gernally will be the bigger problem or solution. Likely problem though. I'm not a denialist it just seems far off still.