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People speak too easily with a sadistic glee when the subject is extreme weather and climate change, here. (fedinsfw.app)

submitted 2 days ago by nerv@fedinsfw.app to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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It is so easy to pick up the callous indifference and the nihilism in those threads, the borderline eagerness to see the demise of the human species.

These are the persons I imagine as being extremely vocal - here - but quiet and subdued on the real world. The type of person that violently accuses others of doing everything wrong while doing nothing themselves. No matter how small.

These are the individuals that almost place bets on when a given catastrophic event might occur. Next to it, the sadistic dead end speech on how it is deserved because a given generation was like this or that and there is no change to be made or achieved because of crooked politians or moguls.

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[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's not a doomer in my understanding. The doomer is the person that does not care, simply put; they're the guys rooting for disgrace and misery, waiting for the "I told you so" moment. You're more of an prepared pessimist.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

no doomers are folks that realize that even if we did the best we could reasonably could we are not stopping global warming and even if we did somehow stop it with some sci fi technology it won't stop all the environmental issues that are equally bad. Its knowing there is no way out but the reaction to that knowledge is different from person to person. Its not at all uncommon for a doomer to have the view that they are going to contribute to it all as least as possible until they hit the grave. Going out closer to saint than sinner.