Climate change & anxiety

[Gs172003]

Plant trees. From my understanding trees clean the air an astounding amount. More trees equals less carbon monoxide.

 

[blackemerald1]

Plant trees. From my understanding trees clean the air an astounding amount. More trees equals less carbon monoxide.

^Thanks for your input @Gs172003 - I do plant trees, I am planting trees. I've planted trees my whole life. I like trees... native, exotic and productive trees.

It's not just about what I can do. It extend far beyond that. I agree I can do my bit. And I'm probably doing my bit and a little more compared to some people I see. However, it's not just about me. I know I am not wholly and personally responsible for this climate change issue.

But still my anxiety persists - as I said ... an overlay on what might be an otherwise reasonably good day/week in terms of anxiety etc.

 

[Gs172003]

^Thanks for your input @Gs172003 - I do plant trees, I am planting trees. I've planted trees my whole life. I like trees... native, exotic and productive trees.

It's not just about what I can do. It extend far beyond that. I agree I can do my bit. And I'm probably doing my bit and a little more compared to some people I see. However, it's not just about me. I know I am not wholly and personally responsible for this climate change issue.

But still my anxiety persists - as I said ... an overlay on what might be an otherwise reasonably good day/week in terms of anxiety etc.

Oh I don't just mean you. Everybody. I also understand how scary all of this is.
I'm sorry I'm not writing better but that's where my head it right now.

 

[blackemerald1]

How are you feeling about the anxiety climate change is generating for you? What are you doing to manage it?

^Do you have any thoughts re ^?

 

[Gs172003]

^Do you have any thoughts re ^?

Me? It's not doing that to me. I think there are enough people that are worried about it and are jumping into action, particularly young people, that there's plenty of hope.

 

[blackemerald1]

Well thanks for your input then. :)

 

[Gs172003]

Well thanks for your input then. :)

You're welcome. I have anxiety for other things so I understand your anxiety. I also work for the zoo and climate change and conservation is a huge deal there. We do everything we can to do our part if that makes you feel better :)

 

[Mach123]

Climate change is not man made. BUT

Your anxiety is real, your wanting to help is real, being effected by the hysteria the left is causing is difficult to avoid.

It can however be avoided.

I didn't say you should pollute or that everything we people have done is good for the environment or you shouldn't want to make a difference. I feel awful that good concerned people are being made crazy by people who are only interested in political or financial gain.

You are obviously a good person and you should use your desire to do good for a good purpose. Saving the planet had been desirous since forever and we have done lots of good and we are called to be good stewards and we should.

I was around in the 70s and it was dirty. The body of water I'm surrounded by now was a sewer 40 years ago I worked on it, I remember, that's one example.

So do it but don't worry for the usual reasons. Don't allow the political winds to blow you around. Do what you can. I thought your post was very nice and I wanted to say something whereas usually I won't respond these days people have become so divided about it.

I manage to get along with my therapist even though she's a stone hearted leftist she's reasonable. : )

 

[RVA21]

Personally, I'm angry at the media for their scaremongering. Disasters sell tv and newspapers. I watched a scientist say that 'sea level has been rising for ten thousand years, it is steady and slow, but it is not a disaster, alot is due to sinking land caused by humans pumping water out of the land' amongst other things. I recycle but I feel there's not much else I can do anyway.

 

[blackemerald1]

You know I totally agree with @Lumos, the media are ramping up the issue every which way. It's really wrong with that being allowed. And yeah, there is so much hysteria surrounding every single facet of the issue that I'm no longer able to even begin to discern what might be accurate, what is definitely scientifically proven from all of the other noise.

It's difficult because I do care. Though I will admit my ptsd prevents me from doing anything pro-active about it really. I never was the type to march in the street or picket government buildings either.

I'm sure there are many good climate/conservation stories out there... like what you were saying @Mach123 - I too have seen some waterways that were once a moving pile of sewerage that are now considered to be pristine. As if they never, ever were sullied by human waste of one variety or another. But they were and somebody who could get it done, decided that there would be no more waste put into those places. Nature mended herself after we stopped pouring our sh*t.

And there are other stories about various animal species that have been brought back from the point of extinction by humans. Though to be honest we might have been responsible for them getting to that point anyway. In the end it doesn't matter except that they are no longer listed as endangered etc.

Today was a prime example where I just had to roll my eyes and switch off. News flash running along the bottom of the screen... usually reserved for bushfire alerts or some major calamity locally. Today was obviously not bad enough with enough bad news.. so they had some 'scientist' - at least he had a white coat on, so maybe he was meant to look like one... I'll never find out, proclaiming that our insect populations are on the point of extinction because of a myriad of human products and behaviours.

Well really? That made me feel guilty about all of the times I've deliberately gone outside and murdered entire ants nests because they had the audacity to build a nest in an inconvenient place or march right through my house to feed off something they have no business eating. So, I poisoned them. I feel guilty even saying that here.

But on the other hand last summer I saved several stumpy tail lizards from certain death. They were about to be run over outside my property. I stopped cars so they could waddle across safely. I didn't plan to help them I just happened to be bringing the bins out when I found them there. They eat ants too... :rolleyes: lol....

Like so many things in this place I live it's a fight for survival, nature v man, nature v nature.

I'm not outside gratuitously killing anything really and I do try to help nature along when I can. But I'm suffering from compassion fatigue and @Lumos I agree with you - the bloody media are doing my head in.

I don't watch much free to air telly and it really is indicative of how much this issue is being hammered if I cannot avoid it. I don't lose sleep over it but it is simmering along with other probably obscure uncertainties I have. And I just don't need it at all. But then I feel socially delinquent because I should care I guess. ..sigh..

 

[RVA21]

I think for me, the worst part is that we are being blamed for things that most of us never really demanded in the first place. I certainly wouldn't have demanded air - polluting factories to be built or vast numbers of trees chopped down. The people in power did, but we're being made to pay the price.

 

[Neverthesame]

That made me feel guilty about all of the times I've deliberately gone outside and murdered entire ants nests because they had the audacity to build a nest in an inconvenient place or march right through my house to feed off something they have no business eating. So, I poisoned them. I feel guilty even saying that here.

Last time I checked, ants will vigorously attack any creature, human or otherwise that disturbs their home. Since ants evolved here on Earth, no one questions this territorial defensive behavior.
Human beings evolved on Earth, why are we not afforded the same courtesy?
You have just as much a right to your home as the bloody ants do. If they are living peacefully out in the garden, they should totally be left alone. When they're biting your feet while you are making tea in your kitchen, then it's time to kick them out. Since stepping on every single ant untill they are all dead is an impractical if not impossible means of stopping the invasion, poison is about the only workable strategy.

Hell, just for shits and giggles:

• Try to bite them back? Eww
• Fire? Your house is more flammable than theirs.
• Pet ant-eater? Nature friendly, but you'll need to find other anthills that isn't invading your home to keep it fed week to week. (They are cute though)
• Gun? Ha!