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I notice a surprising unwillingness to consider that the situation may be, in fact, terrible, and the arguments are usually "well changing lifestyles is impractical" at though the current status quo is sustainable.

>>CalRob+(OP)
May be, in fact terrible, ot may be, in fact, absolutely normal.

Those are emotional definitions having absolutely nothing in common with the situation

>>CalRob+(OP)
How did the lyrics to that song go? And when you ask them, "How much should we give?" Hoo, they only answer, "More, more more more!"

I gave up any hope of having meaningful relationships with other people in the name of building a good career in my life because that's what my parents wanted from me. I got into pistol shooting because it was primarily a solo activity.

Then the government passed laws decreeing that handguns have no place in civilized society. So I wanted to get into motorcycles. But that's just wrong because CO2 emissions. Now I'm being told that having space for myself, for a work from home office is wrong too because we need to increase density for the sake of efficiency.

Meanwhile price my groceries has went from $60 what I paid for in 2019 to $110 for that same bag of food. A small bag of flour went from $2.50 to $5 this year. Rice has gone from $14 to $22 for a large bag. And rent has became mad in many ways; last year average rent in this city was $1450 a month. This year, it's $1700 a month.

Then you've got one side that's yelling that we need to transition cars to electric but the nearest one to what you have is $20,000 more. And you're being told that we need to be looking at a way to get rid of the terrible CO2 emitting gas furnace for something more efficient like a heat pump. But the heat pump that can handle our climate is $15,000 to install.

Then they ban single use plastics like bags because of the issue of microplastics. And it annoys you but at this point it doesn't overly matter because you can't afford to eat out as much anymore anyways. But you're lucky enough to be able to afford rent and food, because you know people that are asking food banks for anything and being told the wait times are now at least 1 to 2 weeks because of the number of people in front of them waiting for food too.

All that verbal diarrhea to say... I'm tired. I'm tired of being told that it's my fault the world is screwed up. I'm tired of seeing seeing the roads I took to whatever little stability I have now being closed behind me. Tired of it seeming like that at some point in my future, the only thing I'll have left to enjoy will be the jab of a syringe full of heroin.

Overly dramatic yeah. It doesn't make any sense but it's how I feel. Dunno if it's anyone else that feels like this way, be a little surprised if it's really just me.

>>hnthro+Ig
> I'm tired of being told that it's my fault the world is screwed up.

It's not your fault specifically though, it's our fault.

I'm fortunate that I'm in Australia, so my parents now have a hybrid car, a heat pump hot water and solar panels.

I have an EV, electric hot water, solar and home battery but... it was only 2 years ago I was renting, I had no solar panels, gas hot water, petrol car, and no home battery.

I did my best to reduce my electricity usage + paying extra to use the 'green power' option, my car was the smallest/most efficient I could get, I got a motorcycle to reduce the amount of oil use for daily trips to work.

My point of view is that you can only do what is in your capacity to do, and so long as you can say that to yourself you're good, we need more people like you.

>>hnthro+Ig
I had a multi split system air source heat pump installed for 7k. And indeed, government has a lot of blame for the high cost of living. I'd love to live in a nice, cheap bungalow court in San Diego close enough to things to not need a car, but it's de facto illegal to build them most places since too much parking is required. The food prices suck though. If only corn subsidies could be applied more sensibly.

>>CalRob+(OP)
It's not surprising. The average demographic of this site is a laptop-class worker whose work and passion is only made possible by a nearly incomprehensible foundation of thousands of years of infrastructure to build off of, who lives very comfortably, fancying themselves humanity's pioneers and dreaming of a singularity within their lifetimes. They've been told it's inexorable, so they think they're entitled to it. Snatching not only that dream away but their entire set of assumptions about how this civilization can't possibly collapse (even though many have in the past) because we're more enlightened or something? Literally can't compute, won't compute.