Sometimes I cry for the animals ...

[FunkyZero]

Man, this thing really should be locked up for everyones sake...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218365722

I_UndergroundPanther (12,077 posts)


Sometimes I wonder
How bad it has to get to get for enough people to face global climate change and what it will do and to take it literally.

If people really did not deny it anymore they'd be acting as if they are in danger.
Right now they are behaving like things are the same 'ol.

If they would realize the reality they would have to drastically change thier lives personally and forever.

They would have to consider the fact they may do without,transportation,not be able to get to work ,go outdoors ,go without power sometimes, no net access or even scarce with food and water or medical help will not come in a disaster. They may see mass animal deaths or animals suffering and be unable to help

They would have to deal with dangerous levels of heat for a bigger chunk of the year. Not just uncomfortable summer heat but humid unrelenting oppressive stifling heat that kills without cool air..or ice to cool down.

Especially rich people who have huge carbon footprints like everyone else they would have to change more and be uncomfortable too..They won't have any country they can run to to escape the effects that global climate change will cause eventually. They will have to go without and thier money might become worthless.

To consciously acknowledge that climate change could be an extinction level event that is happening now will lead to a lot of people psychologically losing it.

It is hard to take in the fact if nothing is done now about climate change everyday it will get worse and more drastic changes will happen. Intellectually it is graspable. But emotionally no. Facing that everyone you love and know,,every pet,animal, every plant will die,even landmasses will change to become unrecognizable is not something people can face psychologically as reality unless the danger is personal up front and in their face..

The climate change scientists had to come to terms with this first. People need a "user friendly" but sorta painful way to wrap thier heads around the actual reality without going into a psychological crisis so the mind doubles down and goes into deeper into denial to avoid total psychological breakdown.


Meanwhile the portion of the country that is narcissistic and its not a small amount anymore will interfere and try to control ,lie confuse,fearmonger dominate ,and abuse everything and everyone they can because they dont give a shit about anything but themselves. They mimic non-narcissistic people to do damage .By time they are unmasked the damage is done. Look at trump and the damage he has done to democracy.

Narcissism is something we have to deal with as a society on something bigger than a personal level.

Humans are not wired to take distant threats as imminent danger. Humans will keep using denial and bullshitting themselves about it until climate change so intrudes so much into thier daily life personally the denial breaks.This applies to the danger narcissists are to humanity too.

There is a mental health crisis in this country right now and people are less able to handle stress of life as it is let alone what climate change will do to the world.

I hold out hope the denial will break sooner rather than later and there will be the kinds of personal and social supports around to cushion the fall when the realization really hits home on a mass scale.

Right now the levels of people with very few or no friends in real life is staggering.
A significant amount of the people here have no one they trust or can confide in.
Psych help is not affordable for a lot of people.


Unreasonable work demands are horrible and it steals the time away from people to be able to process this .Greed of the rich has to be dealt with and unapologetically. The for profit system would have to be changed dramatically to handle this.
The demands of the rich is going to make everything worse.
For profit capitalism as it is will make this crisis into a horror show.Right wing people and politics will make that horror show a living nightmare.Especially if you don't have money.

Look at the magats now ,thier denial is so thick it looks unbreakable. People do anything,even physical destruction to avoid psychological destruction and pain. So they will cling to useless defenses and believe bullshit and even want more bullshit and rage manufactured to feed thier hate that does not help anything. That will have to be dealt with too..

Sadly I think humanity will cling to denial until they cannot deny anymore by then climate change will have gotten so bad it will kill everything.

Denial is nearly impossible. to break,some people have to "hit bottom" to break that denial . Question is what is the bottom to the majority of humans?

If drug abuse is any indicator of how bad the bottom has to get,we and life on Earth are ****ed

Sometimes I cry for the animals. I hold my Othello and apologize to him and all feline kind for our destructive human weakness and the persistence of denial. I tell the trees I am sorry,the birds,the moss,the sky,the water in the puddle and all the organisms in it. Its how I cope with it. I try to raise awareness.

I And I mourn.

MAGATS! TRUUUUMP!!!

***in freak weirdo. take your pills or something

[DUmpDiver]

Short version: Al Gore needs a bigger house.

[Old n Grumpy]

***in freak weirdo. take your pills or something

I think it’s taken to many pills 

[SVPete]

[CollectivismMustDie]

There is a whole lot of confession-through-projection in that post.

[dutch508]

Ghost Chicken 3.0

[Old n Grumpy]

There is a whole lot of confession-through-projection in that post.

It looks like a whole lot of confusion to me.

[DefiantSix]

It looks like a whole lot of confusion to me.

That would be an adequate summation of UGh-Pee's typical mental state. Among the mentally defective DUm'Rats, s/h/it spends more time than most wallowing in s/h/its crazy. 

[FunkyZero]

now I understand why it's been so inactive at the DUmp lately...  it took that cretin 2 months to write that up

[SVPete]

Looking at NOAA, they claim that temperatures are increasing about 1/3 of a degree F per decade, https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature . I'm sure the number is BS, but even if true it would take 30 years for temperatures to increase one whole degree F. That won't be burning any doggy or kitty paw pads in the next century or two.

In the real world, thermometers with reasonable resolution are too new for the kind of predictions being made. Compounding this gross lack of data is the fact that a worldwide sampling of temperatures covering the whole globe is less than a century in breadth, and has gaps due to multiple wars and countries not sharing data with the rest of the world. Warmistas' lies depend on people not being aware of this, and Warmistas know they are gaming people's lack of awareness*.

* I won't call it ignorance, because how many normal people need to know when Fahrenheit invented the thermometer or when weather stations gained something like worldwide presence?

[Old n Grumpy]

And no one mentions that the climate has been changing since the earth began 

[DefiantSix]

now I understand why it's been so inactive at the DUmp lately...  it took that cretin 2 months to write that up

UGh-Pee's access to crayons is routinely limited by the asylum staff, so as to minimize the amount of time they have to spend scrubing UGh-Pee's excrement off the padded cell walls. And floor. And...

 

[DefiantSix]

And no one mentions that the climate has been changing since the earth began 

No one mentions that 99% of species to ever inhabit the Earf had been driven to extinction by changes on the Earf, millions of years before the mammals that would become mankind ever took their first tenuous steps on the surface of the Earf.

Earth's climate was changing long before we evil hairless apes ever got here, and it will continue changing long after any trace of us has been erased from the cosmic memory.

[Ralph Wiggum]

No one mentions that 99% of species to ever inhabit the Earf had been driven to extinction by changes on the Earf, millions of years before the mammals that would become mankind ever took their first tenuous steps on the surface of the Earf.

Earth's climate was changing long before we evil hairless apes ever got here, and it will continue changing long after any trace of us has been erased from the cosmic memory.

Although I've posted it before, the beginning (and the whole 8 minute routine from Carlin) sums it all up for UGP and frankly any leftist:

https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=HRv0YhzLYfuNArqJ

[67 Rover]

And no one mentions that the climate has been changing since the earth began 

The demorat party wants to stop the climate from changing for the first time in 6+ billion years.

[Old n Grumpy]

The demorat party wants to stop the climate from changing for the first time in 6+ billion years.

Joe would do it but he’s busy curing cancer 

[BannedFromDU]

     This person thinks it's a cat, but it owns a cat. That is slavery.

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

Ghost Chicken 3.0

Yeah.
I bet the subway kitty still communes with ol' Blackie, all the while insulting Christians' beliefs as "Stupid" and "Out of touch with reality."
Oh, but the kitty claiming that she/he learned directly from the ghost of her/ his dead pet rooster that the Avian Flu epidemic was REALLY caused by angry chicken ghosts as a way to raise awareness over how inhumanely chickens are treated in the meat- packing industry is totally logical.