Innordinate
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This is actually one of my biggest and most random OCD obsessions.How are you feeling about the anxiety climate change is generating for you?
Like you I once had minor social anxiety- it evolved into avoidant personality disorder about 13 years ago and now I have OCD (maybe as a result) dx 6 years ago.
the fact that basically 20 people on this planet make decisions for the rest of the 7.2 billion people- terrifying
mostly avoid (APD is great for that stuff) news/ media .... everything! that might even touch on troubled planet issues.What are you doing to manage it?
ocd compulsion- rationalize that humans have been on the brink since we've been on this planet.
In the early 19th century leading scientists predicted major world wide famines- we would not be able to produce enough food to feed world populations. They were completely right but then along came the combine, shortly afterwards other inventions that completely revolutionized how we make and produce food
viruses have wiped out 2/3 of country populations- humans found vaccines and medicines.
our entire species makes advancements because of threats. no threats. no need for advancements. one thing we do... and pretty much everyone on this forum is small scale proof of it; we survive. humans survive.
and mother nature takes care of herself.
the population continues to rise and yet there's the exact same amount of oxygen in the air today as there was 100 years ago- how?
more people=more oxygen use but there's the EXACT SAME amount.....
considering half of the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny microbes in the ocean ... thats pretty frikin cool.
i look at inventions coming up- like batteries that pull CO2 from the air to charge, countries in Africa that siphon methane gas from under lakes to reduce pressure so that giant bubbles don't quietly kill entire villages, japanese turbines that run off of ocean current changes. Mining water off of jupiters moons. Even looking at some of jupiters moons, frozen waste lands now but 5 billion years in our future when our sun expands into a red giant, will be warmed enough to melt and possibly support human life.
so yeh, avoid the negative doomsayers as best i can and actively seek out solutions and try to let go of the things i cant control.