The reality is setting in that people simply do not care about making the world a better place. It is breaking my heart, and I do not know how to reconcile my thoughts. I’m sorry to be such a downer here but I don’t know where else to share.

Perhaps the climate catastrophe, human suffering, and inequality is so large and so much out of people’s hands that even people who care have come to a state of learned helplessness. However, there are things within people’s control that doesn’t change. At work, I listen to a coworker frustrated about a simple problem. It would be a simple change to make this person’s job much less painful, but he “just works here”. It’s just such a dumb problem to waste hours of someone’s life on. To a certain extent, I can’t blame him, because a lot of people just work to survive.

I want to make the world a better place. A world where people have all there basic needs met, live in balance with nature, and have a right to self determination. A world where humanity strives to be the best version of itself. I can’t help but get sad or frustrated when I see something wrong. I can’t help but feel like I’m a downer to my friends when I point these things out. They don’t disagree with me, but it just seems like a depressing topic. People seem generally content to live their normal lives. In the same way, I can’t blame them. It won’t build a better future, but they deserve to be happy.

Maybe my coworkers are right, and that I’m too naïve. Maybe my friends are right, and that I’m too empathetic for my own good. I am envious that they can turn off the thing in their head that worries, or wants to make things better, and that they can just enjoy life. A more utopian future is generations away, or maybe never. If I can’t effect change, maybe I should find an outlet, or stop caring, or something. idk, sorry for yapping. if you’re reading this i hope you have a good day

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    Of course we do, where on earth did you get that idea from? Or is it like we should do things because we have kids, but you don’t have to because you don’t ?

    I sincerely don’t understand where you got that idea from.

    • hanrahan@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Of course we do, where on earth did you get that idea from?

      Well, it’s so obvious it’s difficult to understand why you think it’s not ?

      They vote and live their life eating the future their kids will inherit and seemingly doing their very best to ensure the biospheres nearly unlivable and society collapses. All people with kids ? no but 80% would be my estimate and its especially bizzare for people with kids.

      I find it mostly beyond my ability to grasp but then that’s the case for a plethora of things; vaccince denial, climate science denial, flat earthers, religion etal

      https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits

      Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

      Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

      "In relation to the Bonn IPCC meeting 2022, “Because fossil fuel emissions have been allowed to increase, it’s manifestly the greatest evil ever imaginable” -Dr. Peter Carter (20 June 2022)

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        The first link is paywalled, in the second I see no referense to people with children being more selfish than those without.