New research shows the planet on track to top a warming benchmark next year. Many at COP28 remain hopeful the world can avoid that threshold.

  • Luminocta @lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’m just living life now. Born too late too make a change. Ofcourse a certain group of people may need to be held accountable, but they won’t. We, the people, will. Nothing will change. I’m so depressed reading this. I wanted kids. I’m afraid to give them life knowing what disasters may come. I wanted to become a grandfather one day, if lucky enough. Yet all I do is feel like I won’t even make a grandfatherly age.

    Older family members think I’m crazy for believing we’re facing a disaster. They say things like: “every generation has its disaster story”. Maybe they know, but can’t comprehend what’s happening. It’s this same process of thinking " it’s not that bad" that got us here in just a few hundred years. Yet still here we are. Facing possibly the end of life as we’ve known it.

    Why do we not follow the scientists in their studies instead of politicians blaming everyone and everything BUT the ones who are accountable?

    Am I overthinking this, while sitting on a toilet…?