Essay: To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism

[walznotwalls]

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Source: Los Angeles Times

My heart keeps breaking whenever I meet yet another child struggling with asthma amid orange, smoke-filled skies. I, too, am reeling from the whiplash of extreme drought and extreme rain, and I’m still haunted by the thought of a mother having to call each of her daughters to say goodbye as the homes around her cave to fire.

Each year, as I reflect on my own reporting on the floods that keep getting worse and the toxic pollution building up in all forms of life, I find myself questioning whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world. I agonize over the amount of plastic we can’t avoid using and mourn the monarch butterflies that have vanished. With each new heat record shattered, and each new report declaring a code red for humanity, I can’t help but feel like we’re just counting down the days to our own extinction.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-11/climate-anxiety-essay#:~:text=The%20trick%20to%20fixing%20climate,shot%20at%20fixing%20climate%20change.

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this is the kind of journalism i want to see, this is the kind of journalism we should all want to see

[et tu]

1. interesting concept

but please place the blame where it belongs and demand change.
big business has wrapped our daily needs in plastic. even hospitals
generate large quantities of plastic and waste, [whatever happened to do no harm] so don't put this on
the individual, the consumer, we are powerless. governments have to mandate change and we must fight
for the governments' right to do so.

gotv

[walznotwalls]

2. EVERY human being who is not fighting climate change is to blame at some point!

[FakeNoose]

3. Is this for LBN?

Probably belongs in Editorials....

[hunter]

4. This should be posted in General Discussion, Editorials, or Environment & Energy

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This is not Latest Breaking News

[Omaha Steve]

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