[anoxor]

Or, we are given a constant stream of the absolute worst news around the world.

How about the earth has greened by 15% in the recent decade, turning semi arid regions into forests. How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back?

Somehow only the maximum gloom and doom is communicated…

[willio58]

It’s not an “or”, it’s an “and” situation. We are both destroying the planet and we only get bad news.

Unfortunately, nobody cares about good news. Sure, we all like good news but it doesn’t drive engagement so massive companies can’t profit off of it.

If you look for it, there is good news out there. Advancements in green energy (specifically solar) and battery tech is really encouraging, and there’s so much more happening to counter act climate change. But climate change being a hoax is still something a large portion of the world’s political parties still ideologically tie themselves to. Until it get much worse, they will continue to claw to that lie. And as long as that lie continues, we’ll need stories like this.

[Sporktacular]

Who cares about the good news? On balance it's irrelevant and where it's not there's thousands of other things to work on next. Anyone who wants news modified around their feelings, to hear about puppies returned to their owners, should go read fiction and leave reality to the adults.

There is an urgent, multi-layered problem to solve. Needing to feel good through this is pathetic. Humanity at its weakest.

[lamontcg]

> How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back?

The recovery stopped last year, and we're heading into El Nino conditions which will probably cause another mass bleaching:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/09/recovery...

[suby]

Also this,

> "100% coral mortality" found in coral reef restoration site off Florida as ocean temperatures soar

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coral-reef-mortality-florida-oc...

[hobs]

Maximum? No - the fact that global climate change will likely lead to the collapse of globalization in some of our lifetimes is the "worst news" from our standpoint, we barely give a crap about the penguins.

Talking about the positives doesn't negate the negatives, and frankly looking on the bright side of climate change is like talking about how great the last dinner on the titantic was.

[mplewis]

The short-term symptoms you mention don't negate that we are hurtling over the carbon cliff.

[hotpotamus]

Where I live is in the worst drought in living memory with record breaking heat almost every day this month. A co-worker's well ran dry a week or two ago. Trees are dying and I've never seen so many dead animals, presumably from heat or dehydration. Why would I need to watch the national news for calamity?

[Sporktacular]

So you, and others, can know it's a global problem, needing more real leadership than ever before.

[hotpotamus]

I think my feelings these days are more along the lines of trying to enjoy what time is left, but I'm not doing so well at that.

[celtoid]

Some cheery news: We're not far behind if the insects go.

"According to a major scientific review, global insect populations are hurtling towards exctinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems". The research found that 41 percent of the world's insect populations are declining while a third are endangered. The extinction rate of insects is eight times faster than mammals, birds and reptiles and there are suggestions that they could totally vanish within a century." [0]

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/16960/percentage-decline-in-s...