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sure but i just read an article about the atlantic jet stream coming to a halt in the next 50-100 years, so i guess smoke em while you got em or some such phrase.
You read too much news. The news is designed by the ruling powers to make people lose hope and thus make people more easy to subjugate.
If you lived in WW2 or the US-Soviet Cold War, you would've thought the world was ending.
Hey you know that the Earth is eventually gonna get sucked into the sun (or flung out into space, not quite sure which is which) and everything here dies, right.
Everything is temporary.
One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in "heat death". So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since "everything is meaningless"?
Fuck that lol. We shouldn't be alive, the odda s arent even in out favor, but we are. So, TAKE THAT, STUPID UNIVERSE.
I'm alive and being alive is a rebellion, its rebellion against the universe.
P.S. I was born under the Once Child Policy of mainland China. I wasn't even supposed to be born, since my parents already had a child (aka: my older brother). But guess what, I'm alive. So, take that, CCP. Sometimes, I have existential thoughts about the "what if"s, like "what if I was never born". But you know what, fuck that. On this timeline, I'm alive. My life is inherently a rebellion against authoritarians, its a direct contradiction to the CCP's policies. I shouldn't be worrying about a timeline that never happened, and similarly, we have to stop resigning ourselves to a failure that hasn't happened yet, its never too late to try to fix it.
For some pespective, even if the all the polar ice caps melt and we detonated all nukes on earth, Earth would still be more habitable than, say, Mars.
So, do what you can to stop climate change, don't be too sad about it, everything eventually dies, just try your best. Be a rebel against the universe, be a rebel against authoritarians.
Do yourself a favor, and live long enough to see the demise of tyrants, and then keep on living to piss on their graves :D
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Tbh, that argument doesn't really hold. Human lives are short and our experienced history is also incredibly short. "The past" as in the part of the past that we can actually experience as human beings is less than 100 years. We can't fathom how freaking long 1000 years is, even though it's just 40 generations, let alone something that might happen in 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years (that's 106 zeroes).
Climate change related disasters are happening right now and will intensify a lot during the next 50-100 years. I likely live long enough to watch the climate keeling over, and my kids and my grandkids will live right through the worst of it. That's something entirely different than saying that the universe will suffer the heat death in a time frame so long that we can't even understand the number in any relevant context.
i mean a girl can hope.