Been high nonstop for years. I realize it’s bad for my health. But at least being high feels good.
My future is on a planet becoming increasingly unhabitable, under a government becoming increasingly fascist, doing nothing but working and still not being able to afford rent or food, never traveling, never making real friends much less finding a life partner, water quickly becoming a luxury, and with zero chance of ever retiring.
So why even bother?
Climate change wouldn’t be as bad as it is today if we didn’t fix the ozone layer destruction trend.
A lot of the failing democracies around the world wouldn’t be failing as badly if people who drank bleach and licked measles sores because Facebook said it would make them immortal actually died from the consequences instead of surviving to go on and share the posts again.
Sometimes making things better actually does make them worse.
Saving the deer from the wolf can have catastrophic effects.
It should have been addressed and will still be around for decades despite healing, and it is a poster case for “see silly humans, you can mend your ways.”
But there is also a cooling effect to a giant hole opposite to the effect of CO2 and improving the ozone may have slightly worsened the speed of warming as a result.
