I know what this sounds like, so let me explain myself:
I don’t deny that the climate is changing. I’m not a climate change denier. In fact, I am painfully aware of the fact that the world is on fire right now. We are hitting new high temperature records EVERY FUCKING DAY so far this month. There are wildfires in Canada, whose smoke is giving New York and other northern states the Mexico color filter and asthma like crazy, that kind of thing. The ice caps are melting and I’ll probably drown as long as I remain in the state I’m living in.

I understand completely that this stuff is important news, and it’s good that everyone is hearing about it. However, this stuff is a major source of anxiety and depression for me since there is little I can do as one little individual, so to preserve what little mental health I have left, I need to stick my head in the sand like an ostrich, which was a lot easier to do on Reddit since I could more easily curate my personal frontpage on there. Here on Kbin, every magazine gets representation on the front page, and I see a lot more climate doomerism and I’d be lying if I said it hasn’t been chipping at me lately.

TL;DR/Summary: I want less “doom” in my doomscrolling