The Newsroom climate interview is something that, despite being from a fictional show, I have made a lot of people watch for how fucking accurate it is.
Like does she know we're over capacity on fresh water and running out of top soil? Does she know what a Blue Ocean Event is? Does she actually understand how fucking world ending +3c is going to be and how soon we're likly to hit it?
Because no offense but anyone actually working in this industry who isn't fucking morose and out of hope...
Like is she doing low level volunteering or something? Because otherwise she really doesn't understand what's going on.
Most people won't even go vegan, that's like the bare minimum anyone could do that would actually have an impact, and most people won't do it.
Your optimism is not going to rewrite physics or change human nature. Go do whatever you think you need to do to make things better though, by all means, just don't lie to people about the unfixable apocalypse we're heading into or get shitty with them if they're rightfully adopting a bleak outlook.
Unless you're some kind of god wizard capable of rewriting the laws of physics, there is nothing we can do. Go read some of those links and look some of this stuff up for yourself if you don't believe me.
It's going to be climate collapse and resource depletion over the next 25 to 30 years. Click the spoiler for some of the ways this will happen. There are other factors at play too but imo these are the main ones.
The arctic sea ice extent is declining rapidly and we're likely headed into a Blue Ocean Event later this year, and potentially a double BOE depending on how the El Nino and summer in the southern hemisphere go.
I know I keep fucking posting this in comments around the fediverse but it needs to be seen by as many people as possible because this is fucking happening and most people still have no idea and think everything will be ok.
I've always been in that weird space of apparently hella attractive to some and then the complete polar opposite to others, so I've experienced both.
[With shitty people] there's the creepy favouritism, where I'm singled out and expected to be the sexual fantasy and they're willing to try and manipulate me into getting it. And then on the other side of the coin, there's the performative cruelty to make sure everyone in the vicinity can see just how unattractive this person finds me.
Either way, if I have to interact with these people, they're going to make my life difficult.
If you got to choose between life in the torment nexus or not existing, which would you pick? And don't tell me to kill myself, that's not the point of this question.
The Newsroom climate interview is something that, despite being from a fictional show, I have made a lot of people watch for how fucking accurate it is.