Anyone else terrified about climate change

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How on earth can we sleep at night knowing we are just sleepwalking into the abyss. Our children and their children will suffer won't they.

We don't know that, do we? I'll be interested to see what the weather's like next summer. Just don't waste energy and emotion worrying about something you can't change.

It makes me so mad that there are all these companies making money destroying our environment, but are not being held accountable for the consequences.

I am. I think our children and their children will look at us and judge us harshly. I do what I can and want to do more.

Yes. Instead of arguing about whether or not humans are causing climate change, governments should be doing absolutely everything in their power to minimise any possible effects on the environment.

I’ve contacted the Guardian...they are environmentally focussed. I’d like them to start a campaign (much like the recent one in the Independent about the Brexit final say).
I know it feels like we can’t do anything...but even the smallest voice can make a difference if we all speak together.
We have nothing to loose.
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Our consumer society is at odds with what's best for the environment. Unless that changes I can't see it happening.

About 10 years ago I worked for a well known environmental organisation. Internally, the view was pretty much that on climate change, the ship had sailed and the battle was lost. That, like a gigantic runaway oil tanker, too much had been set in motion and couldn’t be turned around in time.

The internal focus was instead on preparing for the effects, trying to mitigate them where possible, or adapt to new circumstances. That wasn’t (and still isn’t) the public stance. But when spending and campaigning decisions were being made, the focus was on preparing the organisation to survive the effects of climate change.

I found this a pretty cynical attitude, and left quite quickly.

You’re right BigLass9 I dispair at all the cheap crap in the shops...rows upon rows of stuff trying to distract us. In Matalan yesterday and there were big plastic clips shaped like watermelon slices to hold your swimming towel closed. What the hell does someone need that for?! Someone designed it. They produced it in coloured plastic, they attached it to a piece of card, they shipped it to a shop where it will sit in a shelf to be bought and used a couple of times and then dumped in the bin or forgotten in a drawer...or left in the shop to be reduced in a few months. It means nothing and costs the environment so much.

Necessity is the mother of invention, dont write off the dinosaurs humanity yet.

I don’t care how uncomfortable or how unpopular it is the government...somehere...the UK or Scandinavia or somewhere just needs to be brave, grasp the nettle and say no more. We do not need growth...it isn’t the only way
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Just don't waste energy and emotion worrying about something you can't change

of course we can change it, and your attitude is the heart of the problem

I think you are on the wrong website MirriVan

YANBU. I remember learning about it in primary school 30 years ago, so it was known then, and we studied it again in secondary school, so it's hard to believe nothing has been done, and instead carbon emissions have actually gone up. Typical Ireland in a way, stick it on the curriculum but don't do anything else.

You could stop eating meat if you can't stop burning fossil fuels. I use the car way too much but I live in rural Ireland so there isn't much choice. I read somewhere that if the world stopped eating meat we could burn as many fossil fuels as we want. Roughly speaking I'm sure.

I worry so much about what kind of world DS will be living in.

You could stop eating meat if you can't stop burning fossil fuels
Zero meat eaters care about climate change THAT much.

There are discussions around protecting 30% of the Oceans/Seas. This will remain clear of fishing/hunting/dumping etc. This will be decided in October.

Likewise a lot of the All Inclusive resorts are going back to the old system of people getting a card and swapping it for a glass, which they use and when finished with, they hand the glass in and get it back. You can do that through the night, so can swap glass type. It's going to make a big difference in the amount of rubbish. Holiday companies need to have pressure put on them.

There's a lot a coke in glass bottles for sale, but they are expensive and there's no guarantee that the bottles will be recycled.

Find out about campaigns and get behind them.

Than at least, you are trying.

The ship has indeed sailed. It's all about mitigation.

Most of the world powers are capitalist, yeah?

There isn't much profit to be made from cutting consumption to decrease emissions.

There's a lot of profit to be made from developing mitigation technologies and all the while continuing to consume.

Meanwhile they feed us this bullshit individualistic narrative about how it's all my personal fault for driving to work and not buying local.

We are cogs in the system! So don't worry about it. Worry about something in your power and take action on that instead. Bake a cake and take some round to your neighbours to say hello. That's an action that can make the world a better place.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/584281/uk-climate-change-risk-assess-2017.pdf
Here is the latest risk assessment.

Yes I'm terrified. Everything seems a bit hopeless at the moment - yet the heatwaves, the storms, the forest fires - are all happening right now. Everything they all said would happen.

Threats to crops, water supplies, sea life, wildlife - it's hard to take it all in.

Sculpture: ‘politicians discussing global warming’ Issac Cordal

I'm worried. I try to live by - reduce, reuse and recycle - but it feels like too little too late.
In the end all my efforts are for nothing if we don't have more change at the government level and world wide.
And we have that idiot climate denier in the white house who has withdrawn the US from what little agreement there was to make a tiny bit of difference. It all seems so bleak.

This planet has always evolved, wiping out all life as it knew it. With regards to environmental change, I assume you've all heard of the ice age etc.

We are all so self absorbed that we like to lay the blame at our own feet in thinking we can control a mass that travels around a star in a single universe.

I am glad that CFC's and HCFC's were banned in the 80's however I think people get confused thinking a somewhat depleted ozone layer equates to global warming.

We don't own planet Earth, the planet will survive without us. Humans will evolve and adapt or die out as a species.

I have no doubt that we will destroy each other through nuclear or religious war before we need to worry about environmental factors. There is always the potential for a natural disaster on a global scale such as Yellowstone erupting.

Life goes on. It may not be human life, but I am certainly not losing sleep over it, in fact, I'd quite like to be alive when we see the end of the world (as we know it).

And yes, I'm an environmentalist.

I worry about this all the time, and the planet in general. When I look at the home ware sections in shops I just think "in a few years, this will all be landfill." Seriously, where is this stuff even going to go?? We are sold the idea that we have to refurbish and redecorate every time the season changes. It's nonsense.

I've always thought the "planet has always evolved...ice ages" is a very poor argument.

We're talking man-made climate change - not natural phenomenons that have previously happened over thousands/millions of years.

This is happening over decades - it's a big difference. It's sudden, it's frightening.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI

It all seems a bit hopeless