Climate change doesn't only kill humans. If it did, I'd agree with your conclusion 👌

If it was just our species that suffered, probably not. But we've unleashed upon this planet something that is possibly worse than nature alone was able to do, and that's tragic. I care about that. I don't think we can do much about it at this point, but shame on us.

I do care about the lost potential we had as a species. Maybe. If we had changed a lot of our ways. Maybe that just wasn't possible, what makes us destroyers of worlds is what also powers the greatness, and one can't happen without the other. Great Filter and all that. Maybe we're not the only ones in the universe that have looked around at the end and said, "shit, we could have done better than this".

So act and care locally. Do what you can to be as responsible of a being to the world as you can in this society. Don't worry if won't help the big picture, that's beyond your control. Pebbles falling can eventually cause an avalanche, but in the meantime they're just doing pebble things. Be the best pebble you can be.

All valid, and uncomfortable.

I hear you here. I get this way sometimes too. One of the major reasons I keep to myself are listed in your last paragraph. People, humans, are disappointing.

But, a number of years ago I basically was forced to have a baby. I'm away from those people now, but I'm still raising a kid, and I hope so dealy hope that he can have some kind of life one day. I didn't intend to bring a child into the world, but now that I have, I must do my best.

I took comfort in reading about feudalistic societies in Italy post the black death. While reading about it one day, I realized that people have consistently lived through horrors. The horrors of today aren't any more special than those of yesteryear.

And so, we keep going, we keep fighting, we control what we can and live another day. My son isnt the only child being born into this world, and I owe it to society to try and make things better today than they were yesterday, no matter even if its a small thing like picking up someone else's trash from a park. Don't stop doing good things because large scale society is aweful. It's always been aweful.

Humans are parasitic, bet, yes. If we go instinct the earth would be better for it, but for today, we live.

Control what you can

Me? I do care.

I feel like people won’t say it, but actions speak louder than words! I have vegan progressive and lgbtq friends eating at McDonald’s (supporting killing animals even though you don’t eat it yourself), flying to Florida to vacation (supporting fascism), buying trucks (anti climate change) and working at major corporations (supporting all that’s bad by being a cog) on and on and on with the choices I see people make that add another little cut to the thousands that will cause the death of the planet.

This and the general Nazification of "american" culture also cause me severe misanthropy. You have to remember that the usa is not the world, though.

You are uncreative, simple minded and lazy. This essay you wrote was just to prove to yourself that you aren't.

People like you are stonewalling people who are trying to make a difference.