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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

reasons to feel overwhelmed by climate change 1/x

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you don't know what piece of the puzzle is yours to work on so you're trying to eat it all at once and you're choking

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

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you found your piece to work on but you don't have enough peers so you think it's never going to be enough

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

your unprocessed fear of your personal death (certain) is getting mixed up with fear of human extinction (unlikely)

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

in your desperate grasping for certainty in an increasingly volatile world you decided we're definitely doomed

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you underestimate how much beauty & goodness will persist amid terrible suffering

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you have prematurely written off the USA

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you don't know enough engineer/inventor/entrepreneur/gardener/earth protectors

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you have insufficient immunity to panicporn and you don't know how to modulate your media diet

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you think we need to undo capitalism, patriarchy, colonisation, ableism etc if we're going to interrupt climate change (compounding problems problem)

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

your identity is anchored in a perverse sense of superiority, you're better than everyone else who doesn't know that we're all doomed

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @RichDecibels

you have never witnessed the awesome power of a generation supercharged by courage and a righteous cause https://t.co/aFNtKDIJBD

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 7 years ago

Junger grew up in a Boston suburb. "Nothing ever happened in my town that required anything close to a collective effort." "What I wanted wasn't destruction and mayhem but the opposite: solidarity." "How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?"

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