Don't despair nor be hopeless. Put on the armor of God and let your light shine. We are created from the heavens. With divine spirit and capacity that can forgive others and ourselves; overcome negativity, be strong and face reality. Whether you believe in Jesus (AS) as the Lord and savior for humanity, in Islam, or in another religion, all praise and thanks for guiding us unto this day and reality where humanity has come so far in such a short time and we develop socially with morals and character building, beliefs, etc. Don't give in. Don't give up hope. Don't shy away nor fear. Be strong - loving and forgiving. Of self and others. We all make mistakes, we can only try - learn, adapt, evolve, become better.
The circular economy in my opinion provides much hope and is being adopted by the EU. I do wish nations (including especially the United States) would have taken action(s) earlier and would be doing more now but still, don't give up hope or let negativity overtake you.
Learn about the Circular Economy at https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
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Agree with a lot of the comments.
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Santiago Gold 2 days ago Bernie described me well. I am an independent because of the last 5 years. At this point, if you’re part of one of the major political tribes, you haven’t been paying attention. "
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Ian Anderson 2 days ago (edited) Plz stop using the term elites in conjunction with politicians. They need to be reminded they are elected as trusted SERVANTS!! "
Disgusting sounding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geWCmB7mZ6I
Don't lose hope, fight and take back the power! Be aware of greenwashing and companies seemingly caring only about profits but hey, things are at least turning around for the climate regardless. This guy (Paul Beckwith) I did believe was right in the past but who knows? Is good to prepare for an uncertain and tough future though. 2030 Climate Targets for 1.5 degree C. targets? -
The Amazon is now a source of carbon emissions already.
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This is the way I've felt in the past: Warning - it's depressing! Horribly so...
We need some new world order police or something to stop humanity from killing itself and all advanced life on the planet. 420 ppm CO2 already. https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2 No chance at 1.5 C. More like 3.5 C if we're lucky (positive feedback loops) and stop GHG emissions now IMO and get to reducing atmospheric CO2 levels down to like 320-340 ppm IMO.
Good stuff I saw years ago:
400 PPM Hit 05/06/2015
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From a while ago:
" The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are unlikely to bear much fruit until the nation undertakes a serious self-examination. Decrying racism and gun violence is fine, but for too long America’s social dysfunction has continued to intensify as the nation has ignored a key underlying pathology: anti-intellectualism.
America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and the evidence is all around us. Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooter who used race as a basis for hate and mass murder, is just the latest horrific example. Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture of racism and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance.
In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are“lies straight from the pit of hell,”(link is external) where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball (link is external) into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one in three citizens can’t name the vice president (link is external), it is beyond dispute that critical thinking has been abandoned as a cultural value. Our failure as a society to connect the dots, to see that such anti-intellectualism comes with a huge price, could eventually be our downfall.
In considering the senseless loss of nine lives in Charleston, of course, racism jumps out as the main issue. But isn’t ignorance at the root of racism? And it’s true that the bloodshed is a reflection of America's violent, gun-crazed culture, but it is only our aversion to reason as a society that has allowed violence to define the culture. Rational public policy, including policies that allow reasonable restraints on gun access, simply isn't possible without an informed, engaged, and rationally thinking public.
Some will point out, correctly, that even educated people can still be racists, but this shouldn’t remove the spotlight from anti-intellectualism. Yes, even intelligent and educated individuals, often due to cultural and institutional influences, can sometimes carry racist biases. But critically thinking individuals recognize racism as wrong and undesirable, even if they aren’t yet able to eliminate every morsel of bias from their own psyches or from social institutions. An anti-intellectual society, however, will have large swaths of people who are motivated by fear, susceptible to tribalism and simplistic explanations, incapable of emotional maturity, and prone to violent solutions. Sound familiar?
And even though it may seem counter-intuitive, anti-intellectualism has little to do with intelligence. We know little about the raw intellectual abilities of Dylann Roof, but we do know that he is an ignorant racist who willfully allowed irrational hatred of an entire demographic to dictate his actions. Whatever his IQ, to some extent he is a product of a culture driven by fear and emotion, not rational thinking, and his actions reflect the paranoid mentality of one who fails to grasp basic notions of what it means to be human.
What Americans rarely acknowledge is that many of their social problems are rooted in the rejection of critical thinking or, conversely, the glorification of the emotional and irrational. What else could explain the hyper-patriotism (link is external) that has many accepting an outlandish notion that America is far superior to the rest of the world? Love of one’s country is fine, but many Americans seem to honestly believe that their country both invented and perfected the idea of freedom, that the quality of life here far surpasses everywhere else in the world.
But it doesn’t. International quality of life rankings(link is external) place America barely in the top ten. America’s rates of murder (link is external) and other violent crime dwarf most of the rest of the developed world, as does its incarceration rate (link is external), while its rates of education and scientific literacy are embarrassingly low (link is external). American schools, claiming to uphold “traditional values,” avoid fact-based sex education, and thus we have the highest rates of teen pregnancy (link is external) in the industrialized world. And those rates are notably highest where so-called “biblical values” are prominent. Go outside the Bible belt, and the rates generally trend downward (link is external).
As this suggests, the impact of fundamentalist religion in driving American anti-intellectualism has been, and continues to be, immense. Old-fashioned notions of sex education may seem like a relatively minor issue to many, but taking old-time religion too seriously can be extremely dangerous in the modern era. High-ranking individuals, even in the military(link is external), see a confrontation between good and evil as biblically predicted and therefore inevitable. They relish the thought of being a righteous part of the final days.
Fundamentalist religion is also a major force in denying human-caused climate change(link is external), a phenomenon that the scientific community has accepted for years. Interestingly, anti-intellectual fundamentalists are joined in their climate change denial with unusual bedfellows: corporate interests(link is external) that stand to gain from the rejection of sound science on climate.
Corporate influence on climate and environmental policy, meanwhile, is simply more evidence of anti-intellectualism in action, for corporate domination of American society is another result of a public that is not thinking critically. Americans have allowed their democracy to slip away, their culture overtaken by enormous corporations that effectively control both the governmental apparatus and the media, thus shaping life around materialism and consumption.
Indeed, these corporate interests encourage anti-intellectualism, conditioning Americans into conformity and passive acceptance of institutional dominance. They are the ones who stand to gain from the absurd levels of fear and nationalism that result in militaristic foreign policy and absurdly high levels of military spending(link is external). They are the ones who stand to gain from consumers who spend money they don’t have on goods and services they don’t need. They are the ones who want a public that is largely uninformed and distracted, thus allowing government policy to be crafted by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. They are the ones who stand to gain from a prison-industrial complex that generates the highest rates of incarceration in the developed world. They are the ones who stand to gain from unregulated securities markets.
Americans can and should denounce the racist and gun-crazed culture that shamefully resulted in nine corpses in Charleston this week, but they also need to dig deeper. At the core of all of this dysfunction is an abandonment of reason. "
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-I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that. - Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world. -
-Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
-Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
-If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.
-The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
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Need to watch: "Jordan Peterson Opens Up About Absence & Life Beyond Order" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkmX31PySA