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CMV: If Covid taught me anything, is that there is no chance for us to actually combat climate change, to the extent where it is almost foolish to try.

The tiniest bit of background - I'm a med student who spends a lot of time in the hospital/Covid wards.

The fact that a huge % of the population don't listen to experts in the field and won't do the most minimal changes in their life to minimize the spread of this acute ongoing pandemic (things like putting on masks) with clear obvious evidence, just makes me realize that there is 0 chance that people will ever do long-term hard changes in their lifestyles to combat something so global, long-term and complicated like climate change.

Because climate change is a global phenomenon, we need the vast majority of people to do actual changes in their lifestyles. Something I just do not see happen, even when it literally is too late.

Honestly, I've reached a point where I believe spending any amount of money or effort on this matter is futile, just looking at the actions of people today. We should just enjoy doing whatever we want with the earth as long as it lasts for humans because we won't do anything meaningful about it (not because we can't, but because too many people won't). 

Again, Climate change is obviously real, ideally, we should do something about it, I just have zero hope for humanity to actually do something about it, so I just think we should enjoy the ride on this burning ship as long as possible. 

God, I wish someone would change my mind on this. It's kind of a depressing realization tbh.
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Look at it the other way: vaccination was the technological game changer that reduced the death rate and allows us to get back to a mostly normal state.

That innovation was brought by a relatively small number of people - researchers in the thousands of less in a world population of billions.

The solution to climate change is less about individual behaviors, and much more about technology of renewables becoming far more cost efficient. That’s a much more solvable problem.