#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

I'm not interested in this snobbery called climate anxiety. In that sense I'm not interested in climate change or the "fight against" "it". I'm not part of this death cult with its twist of blaming others. You don't want to "bring kids into this world"? Why not move to Jonestown?

People are scared of climate change – something they cannot change – in order not to concentrate on things they could change. As we live in a consumerist world, the role of climate change is to scare people into passivity so they keep consuming. It provides a sense of potency.

Obviously, "consuming" doesn't mean the acquisition and consumption of stuff; far more it's the acquisition and consumption of experiences, in which stuff is at best a medium or tool. But it's experiences, everything that distinguishes them from others.

Thus, what people fear when they panic about climate change is not an "end of the world". It's the end of them being able to take part in the consumerist race of self-distinction. The anxiety is the fear of appearing trite; they don't fear corporeal death but that of their ego.

I sound dismissive because I think that in the end people don't want to halt climate change. It's like wanting to change the contours of a cloud. Unimaginable. And even if their homes are flooded or burnt, "climate change" is not a "helpful" explanation.

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