Climate change - I think I want to die

[HelpMeICantCope]

I don’t know what to do or how to cope. All I can think about is climate change and how nobody is doing anything to stop it. This has happened every summer for the last couple of years, the fear of what is coming and the grief for the damage we are doing is unescapable. I’m supposed to be on holiday with DP (well, I am on holiday) and it’s taking all my mental strength not to fall apart. I’m shaking, I can’t eat, I can barely sleep. He’s fine and thinks we’ll solve it and life will go on. I can only see the apocalypse. In another life I’d want to have children, but how can I bring them into this? I just want a simple life, why is this happening to us?

It has also been found unlawful because it’s missing so much information. AND what it pledges is nowhere near what it should have done (which is prob why all the numbers weren’t there in the first place)

@SingingInParadise but it's a start and without it we wouldn't be able to hold the government to account. My greatest fear is that the next PM repeals without replacing or updating it. As I said in my post what we need now, and what is missing is the details to make it happen.

I know next to nothing about this, and appreciate your take DaftasaBroom. Since we’re globally not on track with net zero already, though, doesn’t that mean (in the UK) that we’ll soon need to bring forward Net Zero and add additional commitments?

www.un.org/en/climatechange/net-zero-coalition

www.gov.uk/government/speeches/more-than-zero-why-net-zero-alone-wont-save-the-planet-and-what-will

I will always be grateful to Theresa May for signing up to Net Zero, even if I’m still gutted that she couldn’t find a way to stop Brexit and Boris Johnson from coming to power.

@HelpMeICantCope I hope you're feeling better, re greenwash this swings both ways and I get equally frustrated with the hyperbole from some environmental groups and campaigners, all it does is scare people into a sense of hopelessness.

@BuffScrag the sooner we get to net zero the better, and yes globally we are looking at something around 2060. In the UK we are fortunate to have plenty of renewable resources, particularly wind, this makes investing in renewable technologies attractive, we can also then sell those technologies to other countries.

Daftasabroom thank you- hearing positive and objective facts is really good.