Yes I’m terrified, and frustrated. Not for me obviously but for my children.
If we are now talking about mitigation rather than prevention is anything even being done to mitigate?
Huge swathes of the Amazon continues to be chopped every day, inane plastic tat gets churned out to fill our oceans and landfill, fracking has been given the go-ahead in the uk.
If governments really were interested in saving the human species, is it really outwith the realms of control to limit air travel, immediately put steps in place to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, to ban some of the ridiculous needless manufacturing which happens? Halt mass farming of meat and force us back to a model where meat is a treat, and not a daily drudge of processed ham slices and chicken nuggets. I mean if we were literally being offered the option of either losing these things or boiling to death right now we’d probably be happy to give up the ryan air hen weekend in Budapest and hamburgers.
Even if it’s too late, there’s loads which could at least be attempted, but no one wants to lose votes. Instead of coming together and trying to put out this raging fire, instead, here in the uk, we are entirely focused on the Brexit clusterfuck, which is the current matter wasting time and energy and dividing us more. What a ridiculous joke of a species we are.
I know no one wants to do it, but we’re literally talking about the end of our world as we know it, and not in a billion years when the sun explodes - soon - within our children’s lifetimes.
I do get cheered slightly by the fact that if/when it really all does go to shit, the world will reset and some forms of life will thrive and new form life will begin without us there to screw it up. That’s something I suppose.