Don’t feel powerless and continue to try
Don’t feel powerless and continue to try
Attached: 2 images Headlines around the world have been overwhelmed with the impacts of climate change-fueled extremes on people and places. Extreme heatwaves, flash floods, continuous wildfires, record-breaking ocean temps and more: all are being super-sized by our warming planet. Surely, you thi...
Doomers keep saying we are stuffed. They may be right and definitely will be right if we do nothing.
Major pop psychology generalisations incoming:
I think the OP has the psychological motivation of doomers wrong.
Doomers are just deniers that can no longer maintain the everything is fine reasoning.
The problem is, this does not actually change their position.
Which is "I do not need to change my behaviour".
The old reasoning was "Climate change is not real, therefore, I do not need to change my behaviour"
The new reasoning is "Climate change is real (and unstoppable), therefore, I do not need to change my behaviour as nothing I do will matter."
You will not convince this group to change their behaviour as that is a core belief they are defending, not an outcome.
yeah im a doomer and I want to go out with as clear a conscious as possible. I don't have kids, don't fly or drive unless essentially forced. reduce, reuse, recyle. I actually clean mine for all the good it does. From my conversations I feel its the most common type of reaction for doomers. There is a type that says eff it and wants to just enjoy whatever debauchery they can. Go swim with the dolphins or whatever but it from my experience its in the minority. Im huge on enjoying the state of the world as it is because its not getting any better. walks mostly.