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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

the balls needed to blow up the necessary pipelines are heavier than your mother

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Revolutionary Nordstream II ism

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out that "do what you can" doesn't even necessarily mean trying to prevent or impede climate change directly. It can also mean building community and providing comfort and protection from the worst effects of climate change to the people you care about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly, well said chad 💪

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What if I’m both, I do everything possible but I know it’s futile and we’re fucked. All my efforts i make in my life can be undone by a billionaire on one weekend trip to Europe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

I have hope in a bright future where the major petro states fully embrace libertarianism and obliterate their domestic productive capacity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

If the billionaires can do all that then it sounds like you need to redirect your efforts to building class consciousness and mass movements to collectively struggle against the billionaires so they aren't allowed to waste resources like that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you were doing nothing you'd probably feel less fulfilled

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, sometimes I wish I was alone in a cabin in the woods, just an oblivious apeman waiting out his days. It must be nice for those people who can just ignore it all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I also fantasise about this lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

At least you're doing your part

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d classify myself as a “reluctant doomer”. I try to minimize my environmental impact and encourage others to do the same, but privately, I think we’re fucked. I act like my assumptions are wrong, though. I hope I am.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

You should research, since this is an oil industry astroturfing lie that has taken hold and it is devastating as you can see. You may drop the doomer part and prevent the spread of misinformation as one of your environmental care tasks

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Doomerism is appealing because it tells you its ok not to bother and it speaks to the masochistic epistemology many of us are drawn to.

Reality is that it's like our clothes are slowly catching fire. We aren't getting away with just a singe at this point. We're currently looking at winding up naked in the hospital, but not like "medical coma" level if we do what we need to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the resources!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I planted 3 trees this week and have been making biochar in winter when fire restrictions are lifted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nice work! Keep at it!

I’m hoping to plant some more trees this season but don’t know where yet. Will have to do some more scouting.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I've moved to stainless steel for basically everything. Including plates, bowels, cups, etc. So no more microplastics there at least. I've tried to find environmentally friendly soap and detergents where feasible.

I started cooking bulk slow cook meals at home to reduce waste in my food, i got energy efficient everything. My dishwasher, washing machine and dryer (heat pump dryer) are near the top of ESR. I installed solar ( self consumption not grid tie) and in the summer with my batteries can almost meet 100% of my power needs. Winter varies but can sometimes still offset 60% i also use heatpump hot water and room heating. All my lighting is custom high efficiency led strip lights running on the 48v if the solar batteries directly.

I drive a tiny smart fortwo which as far as I can tell is one of the least polluting non-hybrid vehicles the road, I would like to eventually get an electric car to compliment my solar but that's a purchase for later. I feel as though I've done all that I can do without unreasonably disrupting my life I just feel sad knowing that it's basically worthless in the grand scheme of how much companies are polluting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why stainless over cheap regular ceramic plates or drinking glasses?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I decided part of reducing waste was getting myself something that's basically guaranteed to last me the rest of my life, I can use these dishes as footballs for a family football game or to practice my hacky sack throwing and never worry about them getting damaged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Did you do the math on environmental impact of, say 2-3 ceramic sets vs the impact of one stainless steel?

I'm completely ignorant on the energy/material costs of both, but I know the impact of steel/iron can be pretty big.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I just want people to go vegan because it's so easy, healthy and the right thing to do if you dare to look at it. Simply the most powerful powermove any random chad can do NOW.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some of my fellow punks do not agree. They want this peaceful utopia for themselves, but not their fellow earthlings. Burning lush forests, polluting delicate ecosystems for feed, slitting throats in chains by the billions in factories of misery, exploitation and annihilation.
Every single one of you can end a tiny bit of this horror instantly. A true chad does what they can, until they like a taste too much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you Chad 💪💪💪

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm doing what I can, and encourage others to do the same cuz why not; but also under no illusion that our efforts are going to even delay our extinction by a meaningful amount.

We're at the mercy of some miracle-tier scientific breakthroughs, or literal divine/extraterrestrial intervention. There's a shred of hope in the former, but realistically, we're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hey now, we won't go extinct. Some of the ultra wealthy will likely survive in their bunkers! That's probably comforting right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Oh they'll probably last a few years longer than the rest of us, but their bunkers will only keep em ticking until the AC unit breaks, or... y'know, the plants and algae on the surface die and stop producing O2 and their tanks run out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The problem is your dooming inspires others to give up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Your "realistical" conclusions are parroting oil industry astroturfing lies. We are not doomed because the research is made by them and they are unrelenting in their lobbying and sabotage. Trump destroyed movements and research and every swine with money will continue to sabotage progress on mother earth until we make them stop. Then it ends. Don't be a problem in this class war and choose sides

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Seems like a couple people here are missing the first sentence of my last post.

You don't need me to tell me to do the things - I'm doing the things just in case it turns out to actually make a difference. ...I'm just dead inside as I'm doing them, cuz I don't anticipate them making a difference. The info I'm 'parroting' is coming from institutions like NOAA.

So... do the things. All of us together, yea they add up, just anticipate that the thing they'll add up to is 2025 breaking more records. Then again in 2026. Etc - until that miracle tier scientific breakthrough comes. If it does, our efforts may give just enough of an edge for us to see our climate stabilize. If it doesn't, we're fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Kierkegaard's knight of infinite resignation vs knight of faith

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Precisely my point. Even if recycling is a corporate propaganda to shift blame to consumers and the majority of plastics do not get recycled, or that saving water is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of water lost to pipe leaks, it is still better than doing nothing.

Would these doomers have preferred if they had done nothing at all?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The reason the corporate propaganda to shift blame works is because you are spending your energy worrying about and debating it and telling people that every drop counts rather than doing the far more effective work of organising and fixing the actual problem which is the fact that capitalism is destroying our ecology.

They know it works, they've reused the same playbook for every major ecological disaster, and it keeps working, because we're here chastising each other to just recycle, just save water, just reduce your carbon footprint, just don't use plastic straws, and on and on and on, instead of organising a real solution.

And in case anyone asks whether you can do anything to change the capitalist hellscape that we're living under, I would give your own logic back to you - every little bit works towards the solution. Build local solutions, build mutual aid, wean yourself and your community off of dependence on capital and the state, build mycelial networks of resistance, and you might find that you're less alone and more powerful than you realised before you did this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

every little bit works towards the solution. Build local solutions, build mutual aid

build mycelial networks of resistance, and you might find that you're less alone and more powerful than you realised before you did this.

I didn't mean to say otherwise in my initial comment, but that is what i am trying to say. It is a collective effort-- all from all individual effort, from your neighbours, to yourself, to companies, to politicians, each of which combined together progress towards a meaningful path. We all have to hold each other accountable. It has not come perfectly of course, but at the very least there is some move towards combating climate change, which is better than doing nothing.

My comment is towards those who resign themselves to apathy when they find out that saving water doesn't do as much or what they put into recycle bin turned up in landfill. These little things are better than doing nothing at all. Some people have a notion that they are some sort of superhero. That's why I hate the phrase "hero of your own story. No, we are all just mere humans doing what we can to survive and help one another.

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