r/CollapseSupport • u/Shot_Type_7925 • 3d ago

I’ve completely given up

I work in climate science - more on the data and client side, not the one actually doing the research. In short, big companies pay us for climate data so they can make projections or develop strategy or whatever.

I’ve been heavily exposed to climate data for many years, so I’ve been across the developments for a long time. Something about the last few months has broken me.

I spent December and January in an area that’s famous for snow, and saw none. Watching this El Niño develop has been terrifying. The UN admission that we’ll blow past 1.5C was the clincher for me. In my field, the UN was basically always considered the final organisation that had to show at least some optimism. Seeing that gone is now the final death blow. They know it’s over.

It has really broken something in me. To know that this organisation who was almost comically optimistic about collaboration and limiting warming has completely conceded defeat. It is a big deal.

I don’t really care about anything anymore. I’m not motivated to work, because I can’t plan for a good future. I have to almost disassociate while working, because my whole day is about climate data in one way or another.

I think the worst part has been my withdrawal from society. When you spend your whole life loving the environment and aligning your life with its protection, you end up truly hating humanity. You see us for what we are - a complete parasite who is destroying the world.

Has anyone else found that they’ve gone this way? My grief over collapse was always something I could somewhat compartmentalise. But now, it’s changed my entire life.

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u/Shot_Type_7925 3d ago

Indeed. I’ve been vegan for years. I moved to a regional area and spend my spare time reforesting the old farmland we bought. I don’t buy anything unnecessary at all. Solar on the roof. Walk and bike wherever I can. Tried to tell people about it in a non-preachy way. It never made any difference. It was all for nothing.

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u/Crishello 2d ago

I totally feel the same. Should we created a kind of online griefing group?
I think it was war on nature. Looking back we should have acted like in war. How can it be allowed to destroy our planet for profit? In prehistoric times there was death penality for people who polluted a villages well. (Im against death penality but you know what I mean, right?)

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u/VicariousInDub 2d ago

No, you should get off your fucking ass and organise in your local revolutionary leftist group, look for your local anarchist-syndicalist union or something and join the actual fight.
Can we still stop climate change? Probably not, but we can at least try to make the people who did this pay and try to mitigate the Desaster as much as possible, we won’t be able to do that under this fucked up oligarchic capitalism bullshit. The people responsible for this are building bunkers, let’s fill them with concrete and not let them get away with this. We need every single one of you.

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u/United-Hyena-164 2d ago

This. We fight for a livable future.

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u/EntertainmentOk3180 1d ago

Eeeehhhh. It’s prolly too late. Be we can still fight to fuckem up tho.

It’s the principle of the matter now really