May not be much, but, I’m hoping my GF and I will be on the same schedule by September. This will allow us to travel in one car together. We also just had a chimney inspection that will help us upgrade to more efficient furnace that will vent through the chimney.

permalink
report
reply
7 points

Fantastic, every step is worth it!
Also, I wish you had someday a decent public transportation where you live no to be tied to the car.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Is it really?

Do these small personal changes matter anything at all in the big picture?

It seems to me we all, like everyone living in a rich country on the entire earth, need to drastically change our way of living, in order for it to actually matter anything.

It just seems so improbable that we will be able to stop this thing, that it seems pointless to even try.

Sorry for the negativity. But I really have a hard time feeling anything other than hopelessness, and in the end indifference, when it comes to the climate crisis.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

I agree. I choose to participate in polluting as little as possible; but it does feel pointless so I also chose not to have children. They’ll have enough soldiers for the upcoming water wars. I’m not adding another.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Only people who are too lazy to do anything say stuff like this. There are 8 billion of us. If everybody did something small that would make a huge difference.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Every little thing helps. There are 8 billion of us.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Unfortunately, the timing for trains/subway doesn’t work to our schedule. Even if it did, I’d also need a bus from the nearest subway stop.

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

is this really a change of any sort?

its depressing, but in practice every year has been the most pollution heavy year, right?

permalink
report
reply
2 points

I am converting as many things as I can to electric.

permalink
report
reply
3 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
reply
10 points

And I still know tonnes of people, especially at my workplace, that drive SUVs with “Fuck you Greta” stickers and that complain about everything and anything that is even remotely related to climate change.

permalink
report
reply
8 points

Their world is totally different than ours. Their minds have been poisoned by corporate and capitalists propaganda via private and public media. I advise to support some peoples media, like e.g. this website we’re posting on, the more supporters the more money which gives possibilities to enlarge its influence.
Or spend tonnes of hours on talking with people, so that we can drag them out of their capitalistic media back to the community of real people where they trust their friends more than some capitalistic news bullshit. However this is waaaay more time, energy and emotion consuming. I don’t know how else we could.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

One huge issue is that the real community is gone. There might very well be no one to set them straight. They’ll only meet like-minded brainwashed people in their own community.

permalink
report
parent
reply

World News

!news@beehaw.org

Create post

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:
  • Where possible, post the original source of information.
    • If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
  • Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
  • Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
  • Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
  • Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Community stats

  • 997

    Monthly active users

  • 2.9K

    Posts

  • 18K

    Comments