u/corvidae1917

In the UK temperatures are forecasted to reach up to 36°C next week. This is hotter than I’ve ever experienced personally and apparently this June will be the hottest on record, which happens every year atp. It really depresses me.

Every summer I am confronted with the fact that I probably won’t live to see 40 unless I move to Scandinavia or something. The UK is more like a tropical island now. 25-35°C heat every summer and humidity that makes it feel more like 40°C. Going outside literally feels like being set on fire. I always lament the fact that I was born too late to live a full lifespan (I am 21).
I cannot talk to my parents about it because they still think it’s bullshit and even if they believed in global warming they wouldn’t care because they’re too old for it to drastically affect them.

Heatwaves like this completely remove any desire that I have to do well in my uni course, pursue a career or improve at my hobbies. I didn’t have much motivation anyway, but every summer it gets worse. What is the point in working??? People usually discourage doomerism, buy even if I do something to combat climate change, it seems that every year things still get worse despite all we do. It doesn’t seem like there’s any point anymore. We’re going extinct and there’s nothing we can do even as a collective, in my eyes. I’m willing to be convinced otherwise but it will be extremely difficult.