• huppakee@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Wrote this comment on a similar post 3 days ago:

    While this data is presented by a company selling apartments across the globe and the text is written to explain how much travel destinations change over the coming decades, the data in it gives a clear overview of changes in 85 different cities. Anyone living in any of those 85 cities can use it to see how fucked you might be in the near and not so near future: https://www.nestpick.com/2050-climate-change-city-index/

    Little spoiler: you’ll be at least a little fucked no matter where you live.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    5 hours ago

    You people should really smile more.

    … this all is immensely funny, watching an entire species ecocide itself, and most of the rest of the planet, ultimately because we are too … cowardly, lazy, neurotic, greedy, take your pick, to do what would need to be done to stop it.

    But that’s the joke!

    The human condition.

    That is the joke.

    … why are we so serious?

    What is all that worry and concern gonna accomplish?

    Do you have an actual thing you could do, to make things better in some way, for yourself, for others?

    If no: There’s nothing you can do, worrying is pointless.

    If yes: Just do that then.

    Don’t be deluded that you’re guaranteed, or even likely to be sucessful. That is arrogance. But there is value in trying to do the right thing, even when it seems hopeless.

    Don’t worry about what is unavoidable… it will always get you, eventually. The anticipation only makes it worse, and, paradoxically… makes it more inevitable, by wasting your energy that could be spent on doing instead be spent on worrying.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      12·
      2 hours ago

      Reminds me of very wise words I need to remember more often:

      27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?"

      34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

      —Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 6, verses 27 and 34

      verses 25-31 for context and entirety.

      25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [j]cubit to his [k]stature?

      28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [l]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

      31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 hours ago

    Or we’ll be off a new peak and hear “it’s the coolest year in a decade, so climate change isn’t happening” to explain why anything sub 100⁰ is good enough.