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Talking in these apocalyptic terms is really a bit silly, not to mention counter-productive IMO.

That is your opinion, you don't like thinking about negative things and so you are projecting that onto me.

No surer way to tempt fate than to tell everyone that it's all hopeless and they should all just go home and call it a day.

No, the way we have tempted fate is by pretending things are not anywhere near as serious as they are and then focused our energy on tone policing the people who were suffering already and trying to warn us.

I NEVER said to quit fighting, I said to keep fighting and I will always say that, you are projecting the conclusion that someone with my point of view has no reason to fight, whereas I share my view so that I may hopefully shock people into realizing there is no reason not to fight with everything they have right now. There is no rational reason to save beyond 15 years down the road, to put off spending time with friends and loved ones. We live in an existential time, I am sorry you can't handle that but other people can and that is why I share.

Let me ask you a question, if I told you I had a terminal illness and only had ~10 years to live, would you tell me to stop being negative about it?

You are the one hurting people by gaslighting them for feeling intense climate grief, you rob people of the fire to fight when you say to despair is useless. Despair is a necessary step into realizing you need to take radical action, there is no positive short cut to it, there is only self deception that provides the illusion of forestalling the discomfort from facing it head on and grappling with it.

To hope with a cynicism that will defend the status quo until the very end is useless.

Things are not ok, and I am sorry but no you obviously aren't an expert in keeping up with climate science and related topics if you think we don't face very real existential threats to the global biosphere and functioning of the human food system in the next decade and a half.

Responding to a 45 minute video 11 minutes after it’s posted? Try watching it and see how many people DO care, and how many global organizations are collaborating to urgently address reef health.

You can also volunteer or donate at https://coral.org/en/

Or, ya know, remain ignorant and removed about it.

That sounds like an excuse to not try anything. We need to push for as much harm reduction as we can, not just give up because a lot of things will die.

There are interesting dynamics at work here.

You may be right. You probably are right. But you're not certainly right. In that uncertainty lie a wide range of possibilities.

Next, cynicism is corrosive and demobilizing (ask any dictator how powerful it is). By propagating cynicism, you're making it slightly more likely that your own negative forecast will come true!

This is why, personally, although I'm tempted to agree with you, I choose to shut up about my feelings and instead focus on the upside possibilities of what we don't know. Seems like a more productive use of my energy - and at least I'm not making things even worse than they already are.

You could just sit back and enjoy it instead of commenting like that.