One can be an insufferable asshole about it if one goes on about it too much but I won't really participate in what I consider to be "fake positivity emotional wank sessions"

People seem to gravitate towards total doom and gloom or rainbows and sunshines. And get quite upset when others don't go along for the ride. You see that very often with issues like climate change where the discourse is split between "it's all a hoax lies! Everything is perfectly fine" and the "Oceans are boiling sky is falling human extinction imminent Earth be the new Venus!" Types.

In reality even the most dire climate change predictions don't predict imminent human extinction and most of the stuff you see in the news is basically social engineering. But, the people that realize they are being manipulated go the other way and flat out reject all of it which is also a stupid approach.

I think it's quite funny though how we could have essentially cut a lot of the carbon by simply going with nukes back in the day, but the same hippie types protesting those are the doom and gloom plastic straws will destroy the earth dumbasses we get today.

Oh you banned plastic straws and disposable plastic, I mean great, now we'll just have to make them out of paper and cut down more trees. Hooray. Also what does that do for carbon emissions? Fuck all?