Sometimes I wonder about this. No matter how luxurious your bunker is, living there is still going to be a downgrade compared to how we live now.
Why not give a fuck about saving the environment? Not for unwashed masses, but for your kids and grandkids?
Here’s an actual in-depth answer in the form of a philosophical essay article about the Greek concept of “amathia”, roughly translated as “willfull ignorance.”
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
Take some time here on Lemmy and explain to people that they should make individual efforts to lower their own footprint. You’ll be met with every excuse in the book why they won’t do something to decrease their own burden, even going so far as to “explain” to you how dumb the suggestion even is.
The problem is that no one wants to decrease their own quality of life, they expect everyone else to do it. The person who is sitting in their AC house, cruising the Internet on their multi-hundred dollar phone, after driving around in their own vehicle…have convinced themselves that they are no the wealthy of the year spewing out way more emissions…it’s really the people flying private jets!
Everyone points to someone else as a bigger culprit, they are the ones who have to act first.
That kid is going to be extra grateful when his dad explains how much money he helped make the shareholders.
This is such an asshole take.
99.99 percent of people are just doing what they can.
Just about everything and everyone works for, with, or adjacent to a heinous company.
Everything is immoral, including your comment since you used a computer (which was unethically developed and manufactured, and since critical advancements in computing were sometimes made by bad people, it’s now impossible to create a truly harm free computer. This software (lemmy) is connected in some way to bad people, either its users, contributors, or the contributors to dependencies ( or the contributors to their dependencies, and so on).
Waxing on about how joe blow worked an office job that made someone rich so he could save 50 grand for his kid and how that makes him a bad person is just needlessly cruel.
No no, this is clearly a post apocalypse scenario… By that time only the .00001% will have any money to hand down to their kids… We can assume this is a corrupt billionaire
More importantly it’s just not really true.
Money will always be a part of human culture because we need some kind of default monetary value that says you’ve contributed to the betterment of your fellow man in some way.
This won’t go away when we have cold fusion and a Dyson sphere lol.
Despite this, the vast majority of these people are typing from well off countries in areas that won’t be affected by the severe parts of climate change.
You know who mostly gets boned from climate change? Like, the literal worst climate change or severe nuclear winter. It’s not most Europeans, Americans, or Chinese I’ll tell you that lol.
Doomers are suckers who have eaten up propaganda meant to make the world worse through apathy and inaction. It’s worsened when they know they’re addicted to the internet but it’s easier to not care about their future and pretend everything is against them rather than try to better their and everyone’s lives somehow. It’s the bane of the mentally unwell, lazy, easily swayed, and non-curious.
Get ready for the Green washing comments lol.
https://concernusa.org/news/countries-most-affected-by-climate-change/
https://www.vox.com/22620706/climate-change-ipcc-report-2021-ssp-scenario-future-warming
It’s funny cause no he didn’t
It’s bottle caps.
That’s dark. I feel sad now, also very glad I don’t have, or want, children.
Here’s another dark comic about children to cheer you up
Jesus christ I don’t need this gut punch and flashback, I’m going back to bed.
Is the implication that he can’t afford food or something?
Yeah - if I recall correctly, it was originally with a newspaper article about living cost crisis here in the UK
The dad should be drinking a beer.
Beer is expensive.
The whole point of this is to show the dad making a sacrifice for his kid.
If we want humanity to have any kind of future then we need more children not raised by cunts.
I don’t think running out of O2 is in the cards. Poisoning ourselves in other ways sure. Turning land into desert also sure.
running out of o2 might not be, but having that o2 mixed with some fucking poison definitely is…
Yes, but you wouldn’t carry around an O2 canister necessarily, rather some kind of air filter I would imagine. I think we are a long way off making the air unbreathable though.
it is a comic pointing to a problem. don’t over-analyze it.
personally, i like this one better, but ultimately they both point to same issue.
Maybe the kid is Bubble Boy
Why does pop not wear oxygen?
Probably an anti-masker
Because he’s dead
he seems like a pretty good father considering he is sacrificing his only source of oxygen so that his son can live.
Yeah but don’t let
redditlemmy hear you having a nuanced or thoughtful take.
Very cash money poggers of you father
