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Deep Impact is to Armageddon as Volcano is to Dante’s Peak.
Challenge defeatism.
Deep Impact is to Armageddon as Volcano is to Dante’s Peak.
Time to break out ol’ faithful
Let’s push for surgical equipment to be made more environmentally friendly, rather than dismiss a global iniative to reduce plastics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068768/
Also, sterilisation isn’t dependent on the equipment being made of plastics
https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/disinfection-sterilization/sterilizing-practices.html
More details here, although finding out which countries pushed back is tricky:
No problem! It’s not easy, as you say. Here’s some links to more positive places on Lemmy that you might find also help improve your mood:
Try ans stay happy Friend!
I absolutely agree that prioritising your own mental health is something everyone should do, but don’t you think that governments and corporations are even less likely to do anything if people like yourself just throw up their hands in frustration and give up?
There are ways of maintaining good mental health, but I’m not sure doing a full 180 is one of them.
That sounds like an opinion born of understandable frustration. However evidence suggests that people are more willing to make changes than you might think: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/09/14/in-response-to-climate-change-citizens-in-advanced-economies-are-willing-to-alter-how-they-live-and-work/pg_2021-09-14_climate_0-01-png/
That sounds frustrating but, with respect, evidence suggests otherwise: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/global-surveys-show-peoples-growing-concern-about-climate-change#one
That must be frustrating, but try not to let personal experience cloud the bigger picture. More people are willing to take action than you might think: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/09/14/in-response-to-climate-change-citizens-in-advanced-economies-are-willing-to-alter-how-they-live-and-work/pg_2021-09-14_climate_0-01-png/
And people are taking action, here’s some recent examples: https://curious.earth/blog/climate-success-stories/
Things look bleak, and it’s hard to remain optimistic, so it’s more important than ever to take the time to remind yourself of what is going right in the world:
It’s important to take time to appreciate the things that are going well in the world.
As you correctly identified constantly doomscrolling is bad for your health.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-psychology-social-media-fomo/
It’s easy to lose track of the difference an individual can make to climate change, but you must view it from an appropriate perspective:
https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org/climate-change-can-one-person-really-make-a-difference/
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-yes-your-individual-action-does-make-a-difference-115169
It’s hard to remain positive these days, so please take some time to remind yourself about all the things that are going well in the world:
Actually, not only are the vast majority of people aware of man made climate change, they also consider it personally important and a government priorty: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/international-public-opinion-climate-change-2023-appendix.pdf
people migrate illegally from everywhere. you’re suggesting the UK should fix what exactly? every undeveloped nation everywhere?
I mean, not on its own, no, and only those nations from which it’s reciving the bulk of the immigrants. But long term that is the only viable option. As I understand it these are not people who are leaving their country because they particularly want to, they leave because things are so bad at home that literally risking their lives is better than staying. I imagine given the chance they’d prefer to stay at home, so at some point we need to help ensure that’s possible.
In the mean time a refugee camp of sorts would allow them to remain in their own country and provide suitable housing etc, meaning they wouldn’t have to leave in the first place.
Address the issue at the source. Find out why these people are willing to risk their lives to leave and try and fix that. At the very least you could create a safe encampment in their home country where they can go to live, receive aid, food, housing etc. Get the UN involved to protect it or something.
This is kinda the same issue as with arresting homeless people for sleeping rough - it addresses (poorly) the symptom, not the cause.
A couple of years ago I saw an article on Toyota inventing something called solid state battery’s… Never heard anything about that again.
… the article you provided was nothing more than “LG is researching solid state batteries”
Maybe, but we can certainly help by, amongst many other things, not advertising AI Nude Apps on Instagram. Ultimately what we shouldn’t be doing is blaming the victims by implying they are somehow at fault for having the audacity to upload pictures of themselves to the Internet.
It’s about consent. If you have no problem with people jerking off to your pictures, fine, but others do.
If you don’t want people to jerk off to your photos, don’t upload any. It happens with and without these apps.
You get that that opinion is pretty much the same as those who say if she didn’t want to be harrassed she shouldn’t have worn such provocative clothing!?
How about we allow people to upload whatever pictures they want and try to address the weirdos turning them into porn without consent, rather than blaming the victims?
Oh for fucks sake. I really enjoyed Deck Nine’s LiS work. This is extremely disappointing.
Unrelated, but what is that black/dark grey thing on the desk?