I feel like the incentives to participate in ordered society are diminishing every year. I just don't see the benefits anymore: if one doesn't fight, then they die meaninglessly anyway.
Someone somewhere said "the end is near", so let's ignore all the counter-arguments and counter-examples, human ingenuity and technological capability and weep instead.
>it sucks huge dick
>I'm really not all that interested in learning how much higher my body can withstand while being told that everything is fine
I'm guessing as a Texan, you have a car (or worse, a truck)? You're causing the situation you're complaining about.
Just look at anyone below age 25. It is utter lunacy for them to believe in the system as a force for good, or a necessary good either. "Your vote counts," and other bullshit media keeps repeating like a broken record.
It's going to get worse, but humanity takes a step forward for the better only after massive tragedies, not when megacorp says they're going net zero, or that party promises they'll fix it for real by adding a tax on meat products.
Humanity and Earth will eventually be fine, but right now we're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, so to speak.
The bulk of people below 25 live in the Global South. A majority of them live in countries experiencing strong economic growth, albeit from a low base. This kind of doomerism is exclusive to rich countries and is little more than whingeing.
The large charity foundations billionaires give the money to are doing undeniably good work, but it is a massive circlejerk for rich people to imagine that thanks to their generosity they're now all singing Kumbaya.
How's the deforestation of the Amazon going? At least now the indigenous tribes can drink Coca-Cola now instead of plain water. Isn't globalisation just great?
I'm just saying it is commonplace in the Western world to pat ourselves in the back because we've donated $100 to Médecins Sans Frontières and believe we've made the world a better place. We certainly did, but it's just a drop in the ocean.
The economic growth that my country has experienced in past few decades is down to abandonment of retarded socialist policies and adoption of globalisation. The fact that you think Western charity has anything to with it suggests profound ignorance.
> How's the deforestation of the Amazon going?
The people of Brazil have every right to make use of the resources of their country. If they want land for their livestock or want to harvest timber, more power to them! Remind me: What happened to the forests in Europe or the bison in America?
> Isn't globalisation just great?
It absolutely is! More globalisation, more growth and less whinging from privileged Western doomers.
It's not the people of Brazil that are benefiting of the resources of the Amazon rainforest. Even worse is believing that the destruction of the rainforest is the catalyst for Brazil's growth.
Also:
> This kind of doomerism is exclusive to rich countries and is little more than whingeing.
When one can finally afford bread, they still are too busy to see how fucked up our global economic divide is. Give a starving man a crumb of bread while you have stashed food for years, and they'll weep with gratitude. It's all a matter of perspective.
Sometimes you need a vantage point to notice how unfair everything is.
Brazilian farmers would beg to disagree.
> Even worse is believing that the destruction of the rainforest is the catalyst for Brazil's growth.
You're attacking a strawman. I made no such claim. Although Brazil experienced significant growth during the China fueled commodity supercycle. That was possible thanks to... checks notes ... globalisation!
> When one can finally afford bread, they still are too busy to see how fucked up our global economic divide is.
Globalisation and free trade have lifted hundereds out of poverty and reduced economic inequality globally.
> Sometimes you need a vantage point to notice how unfair everything is.
Thankfully we have Whinging Saviors to tell us all about how everything is fucked despite things being significantly better than in the past:
What do you mean you can find a high paying job and afford to have a good standard of living? It is utter lunacy for you believe in the system! You're too poor to know!
But you're the one that has moved the focus to that. Would you mind if I whinge, like you keep on repeating ad nauseam, that here in our privileged world, things are not better than they were 20 years ago for most people except the ultra-rich? We do in fact have our own < 25 years old here as well, they are not only living on the equator as you seem to suggest.
So if I accept that in poorer countries things have turned for the best, as you keep droning on, please accept that I have a perspective that here in our supposed ivory towers life for many people is worse, poorer and with less social mobility. These two outcomes are not incompatible with each other.
Thank you and good day.
> We do in fact have our own < 25 years old here as well, they are not only living on the equator as you seem to suggest.
I specifically said the majority of people under 25 live in the Global South. That's simply an objective fact down to larger population and higher fertility. And the Global South has nothing to with the Equator.
Write a physical paper letter to your congresspeople letting them know that you’re a single issue voter on carbon tax with carbon dividend and border adjustment. Help bring it to the top of their mind, above the huge number of competing priorities, if you want to see something done.
No, always blame the voter. But please don't complain too loudly, say the protest laws. And so we keep the farçe alive for another 4 years.
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The carbon tax would be a swell idea, but no politician will ever table it, because none of the major players that put money in their pocket want it.
How did the voters react to the gas tax increases in France? Was that the result of the evil billionaires and lobbyists? Or was it regular people afraid of the potential disruption to their lives?
I don't know where you live, of course. But you seem to be in despair. If I may suggest that you reflect further or talk with someone, your view of society is clearly not true.
There continue to be significant benefits to participating in ordered society. And this, for the vast majority of humanity.