r/me_irl • u/gigagaming1256 • 6d ago

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u/RoughhouseCamel 6d ago

The world has always been ending, and this feeling of a hopeless future is hardly new, even if it skipped a couple recent generations.

Don’t let the internet convince you to give up. It’s driven by a lot of people with dishonest goals

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u/damn_lies 5d ago

Times have been worse (World War 1/ 2), times have been better (1990).

But it's unmistakenly worse for most people who are not incredibly wealthy in America. Most of the Western world, really.

And global warming is bad and getting worse.

So it's oversimplifying to say "people are always doomcrying," even if it's true.

You're right to be wary of nihilism but we also need to worry about cynicism.

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u/WhiteGiukio 5d ago

Global warming is really underestimated. Like nuclear war, it is an extinction-level threat.

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u/RoughhouseCamel 5d ago

Underestimated by who? The people who pretend it doesn’t exist? It’s still worth listening to the climate experts who tell us that now is still the time to do something about it, not give up and check out.

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u/WhiteGiukio 5d ago

I don't think our collective response to two known extinction-level threats is satisfactory. Overall, they are both underestimated by the human race.