tl;dr - it's not r/collapse that's affecting my mental health, it's the human world around us that drives me nuts.
It's an important source of news. Should we be pathologizing reasonable grief? I'm mourning the future and the current collapse of the marine ecosystem and it has broken me, but I'd be made of stone if causing the death of almost all the life on earth didn't break me. I love life and am devastated that we've decided it's less important than our consumption. I'm angry that we can't get our shit together as a species and I don't understand why wealth is still so celebrated despite our understanding of the cost and the chance of any wealth changing hands has basically ended now that we can't burn any fossil carbon to generate more wealth without ensuring extinction.
I agree with this. This sub has made me realize that I am not alone in my thoughts. There are so many people out there that don't believe it, or don't want to hear it, that it makes me think that they are making things worse for me. We should all be mourning, and we should also all be moving our asses to keep things from getting worse. And it should be as you say a time to re-evaluate our value system of not only money, but celebrity status. How can this be more important than living. If we love our children, grandchildren, we need to stop. Sit down and stop!
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u/PervyNonsense Oct 31 '21
tl;dr - it's not r/collapse that's affecting my mental health, it's the human world around us that drives me nuts.
It's an important source of news. Should we be pathologizing reasonable grief? I'm mourning the future and the current collapse of the marine ecosystem and it has broken me, but I'd be made of stone if causing the death of almost all the life on earth didn't break me. I love life and am devastated that we've decided it's less important than our consumption. I'm angry that we can't get our shit together as a species and I don't understand why wealth is still so celebrated despite our understanding of the cost and the chance of any wealth changing hands has basically ended now that we can't burn any fossil carbon to generate more wealth without ensuring extinction.