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This is one if the best writings on climate crisis I’ve read recently. To add my two cents

"I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win."

-- Richard Stallman

Fuck hope and optimism. I am gonna go out and fight no matter what. Doing nothing makes me sick.

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Hey God bless you, me too! If there is anything inspiring about watching David Attenborough films, other than our gorgeous Earth, it is that nature has the processes to recover. Even in the worst of conditions. Just look at Chernobyl. A whole ecosystem returned and is thriving better than the ecosystem on the outer perimeter of it.

Talking of Attenborough, it's difficult to stay hopeful after seeing his one hour Climate Change - The Facts, despite Attenborough's optimism at the end. The time lapse sequences from satellite of deforestation, destruction, pollution etc to an extent rarely seen really puts our species' suicidal, destructive tendencies in context.

For me it was far more "we're fucked" than inspiring call to action. Haven't given up trying yet, though I am not at all hopeful now.

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