Comment on Is it just me, or are conspiracy theories trending right now?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I’m growing convinced the media is trying to distract us from
- labor strikes
- that we just had the hottest 3 days in the last 150,000 years
- that the Atlantic is record hot and we’re entering hurricane season
- that Antarctica isn’t replenishing ice at what should be the peak of it’s winter
- that a new gis report suggests the Pacific Northwest won’t have any sand beaches by the year 2100
- that there’s a mass coral die off underway
- or that we’ve got new records for the amount of greenhouse gases released
It’s been a bad news summer for people who hope to have a future
LostCause@kbin.social 2 years ago
There is a website I like to use, News Minimalist: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
And what was striking to me is, how many articles with highest significance score were about the climate in the last few weeks. Yet barely anybody is talking about it around me, and if I do bring it up everyone is quick to complain about the protesters who block roads.
I feel pretty lost, have been for a while. My username is basically, condensing my feelings about humanity. I do hope for a better future, but I don‘t believe in it myself anymore, if that makes sense.