• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Agree, but I don’t think it’s limited to ads or PSAs, I think everyone with empathy is having a real hard time, because the news and the internet is constantly making them aware of, just, awful things. War and famine abroad and at home, all while like, 800 people in the world sit atop mountains of gold, doing absolutely everything in their power to destroy the planet and subvert democracy. We’ve been past the climate change “tipping point” for YEARS, and we’re still growing our oil and gas consumption. Anybody that cares about peoples suffering, is going to suffer, because we can’t empathise with everyone, everywhere, all at once. And yet, that’s what we’re asked to do, everytime we see the news. We’re still trying to play todays game by yesterdays rules.

    The reality of the situation is that in the lifetime of your child, they will see complete economic and agricultural collapse. Why do you think that syphilitic pedo rapist wants Greenland so bad? Because projections show that giant iceball is going to be our best farmland in 60 years. Meanwhile any nations near the equator will be absolutely fucked. Chemical manufacturers in the US have so captured the government, that they’ve been poisoning all your water and food for decades without as much as a peep from regulators. Gotta get that new glyphosate weed and bug killer! nevermind it’s been banned by almost every country except our dumbasses.

    if this were minecraft, I’d say that all we really need to do to save our species, is kill about 3-400 billionaires, redistribute their wealth, put a blanket moratorium on oil and gas usage, transitioning the worlds fleet of cars to electric (or just abandoning them all together in favor of trains), and establishing a one world government. Just think of the amount of artistic and scientific endeavors we could achieve if man were allowed the freedom to breathe and live. Imagine if you had universal healthcare, universal pre-k and daycare, imagine if you were given a 4 year college education just as a matter of course. Imagine if rent control existed, and a universal basic income to allow you a basic standard of living. Imagine how much happier you would be.

    Hey, we’re only like 3-400 billionaires deaths away from achieving it.

    …in minecraft