Why isn't the climate crisis being talked about much on here?

[sdra]

It's Armageddon dire. www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ipcc-climate-report-updates-un-b2024751.html

Is it because people feel they can't do anything about it? Don't believe it? Media doesn't ring alarm bells much so we feel we're sleepwalking into a disaster? Am genuinely curious as to why it's not really discussed on mumsnet. It's the same IRL. Covid. Yup. The war. Yup. Climate? Never.

It got discussed a lot at the previous IPCC report release but we’re all currently a bit busy scaremongering over nuclear war to worry about the slightly slower crisis

I think it is discussed a lot, but perhaps woven into our everyday lives e.g. threads about energy usage, food waste, transport & travel etc, rather than on dedicated threads.

There’s only so much existential dread we can all deal with at once?

Just start a thread about having more than two kids and you'll soon have a discussion on it.

Oh, and royals on private jets - those threads are popular.

Not sure what the age range is here

But I was told it was Armageddon dire when I was at school...30 years ago.

All generations of schoolchildren get this, I guess.

In my 20s I had some people tell me the riverside office would be under water in 10 years. 26 years later, there it is...but that is not the film they make

What temperature is your thermostat set at?

It's so huge, too big for us to comprehend. I've been following it as it were for 40 years and almost feel numb about the complacency. It's like we are just sleepwalking into it. Makes me so angry seeing all the world leaders doing great things re Covid or Putin but not climate change which will finish us all off if we carry on like this - which we will..

@mynameiscalypso

Just start a thread about having more than two kids and you'll soon have a discussion on it.

Or “AIBU to put this recycling in the normal bin?”

Because we fear it will be "solved" if Putin presses the button.

To be honest, I just don’t really care any more. There’s only so much shite one can worry about.

It may well get an awful lot hotter soon.

I wonder this too. I think we have a human tendency to deal with what is right in front of us not the long term.

My fuck giving is too full of other stuff at the moment, I can't get upset about this tbh.

In short, because it's MUCH too big and too scary for us to cope with... much like a certain deranged psychopath with his finger perilously close to the nuclear button which would wipe the lot of us our before climate change gets a chance.

The world is a very, very scary place just now and people are turning to whatever the fuck they can just to get them through the day.

@WouldBeGood

To be honest, I just don’t really care any more. There’s only so much shite one can worry about.

yep

Also, I see a glimmer of hope that people are seeing through the lies

We are told "don't print this email" to be green, while tech companies roll on with planned obsolescence which then continues their relentless production line, using finite resources, polluting the environment....

Digital everything, electronic cars etc being described as though they have no impact at all. Now governments want digital currency....as well as the other issues, the environmental impact is huge.

And in the 70s, they were warning of a new ice age

@EmmaH2022

Also, I see a glimmer of hope that people are seeing through the lies

We are told "don't print this email" to be green, while tech companies roll on with planned obsolescence which then continues their relentless production line, using finite resources, polluting the environment....

Digital everything, electronic cars etc being described as though they have no impact at all. Now governments want digital currency....as well as the other issues, the environmental impact is huge.

And in the 70s, they were warning of a new ice age

I’m with you ☹️

@EmmaH2022 Solar panels are toxic as hell to make and discard, there apparently aren’t enough resources to make enough electric vehicles to replace it all, Moby is making UN agenda 2050 documentaries virtue signalling and moralising about veganism when he literally goes around at parties touching people with his unclothed dick 🤮

No thank you. Veganism is terrible for mental health too, and many ex vegans are telling of how it destroyed their bodies too.

It’s been at least partly overshadowed by a) Brexit, b) COVID, and now c) Putin.

Because I don't want to hear a whole load of shite about animal agriculture 'destroying the planet'.

It's bad timing - had it come out two weeks ago it would have had much more coverage. Ditto the floods in Australia. Ukraine is obviously dominating the news.

I think it's partly a) because of covid, putin, brexit, trump, etc etc etc b) we can't cope with much more! c) that feeling of what can I do when big business and government are just being feckers and going about making their billions. I also feel the mass media has a huge amount to do with it. They just don't cover it. Just like they don't cover Afghanistan anymore. I guess it also feels less tangible than covid, brexit which was in our faces. But I also don't see the dots being connected with the increase in floods, heatwaves and how it's affecting people's lives directly in more vulnerable areas. I'm finding my anxiety is massively increasing because we're not talking about it. I still don't feel able to talk about it iyswim. It does feel like we're sleepwalking into a disaster.

@HeddaGarbled

What temperature is your thermostat set at?

If you turned down your thermostat every time you read "turn it down by one degree" you'd be at 0 :)

Because the plague is still lingering, world war three is breaking out, and consequently problems that develop over decades with plenty of time for mankind to adjust are now seen with a healthy dose of perspective.

Also we’ve spent all the money on the above problems so there is none left for climate change and our only hope for economic recovery is consume consume consume!