• BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.ml
    61·
    1 year ago

    People should respond as if it is fixable, even if it is not. Any mitigation or reduction is positive. If you’re gonna go out, go out swinging. Reject the status quo. Expect more from yourself and others.

    And also go Vegan 🤗

    • frezik@midwest.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The problem is fixable, but my biggest worry right now is that rich nations will do enough to save rich nations. They’ll get most of their power from non-carbon based sources, pollute significantly less from industrial processes, protect their agricultural output, and switch 90% of cars on the road to BEVs. Then they just deal with the problems of increased flooding, wildfires, etc.

      Meanwhile, the Middle East turns into a power vacuum because nobody wants their major export anymore. Africa starves to a level not seen in decades, or maybe ever.

  • greengnu@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Doom stops when people have hope. Teaching people how to climb to a solar punk future is the solution.

    We need solar punk political candidates.

    • Andy@slrpnk.net
      1·
      11 months ago

      A geologist friend of mine ran for something local. She didn’t win, but I was very proud of her for engaging in the process. She would’ve been a great leader for whatever she was running for. I don’t recall the details, as she lives in another state.

    • Lyrata@slrpnk.net
      0·
      1 year ago

      Not only representative politics. We need to focus on grassroots initiatives as well.

      Both is good

    • SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Doing nothing didn’t help

      Assuming science will somehow solve the problem magically with no input doesn’t help

      Assuming nothing you do matters because there’s people in China doesn’t help

      It’s don’t as though we’re fucked so why not be a doomer

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      11 months ago

      Dismissing problems using cheap labels like that helps even less. Actually causes harm.

      • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
        0·
        1 year ago

        Pretending we are all doomed just leads to inaction. Why bother, if we all die anyway.

        Pretending all will be great just leads to inaction. Why do something yourself, when it is basicly solved already.

        What works is to understand that there is a problem, but we have the solutions. That is actually the case right now. We have a massive problem with climate crisis, but we also have the tools to bring our emissions to basicly zero, if we choose to do it. Some countries are already taking actions on this.