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  • No, you can’t. There are trillions of trees on earth and the impact they have on carbon emissions is relatively minimal, planting a forest or even many forests isn’t going to cut it.

    Not to mention that for trees to be an at all viable long term carbon capture method, you can’t ever cut those trees down. If we can’t leave the fucking Amazon alone, what makes you think we won’t chop up that artificial forest in 50 years?

    This is the same issue with kelp. Kelp has a ton of uses, and is an even better carbon sink than trees are, but to be a carbon sink you have to forgo all of those other uses because you have to literally sink the kelp to the bottom of the ocean and leave it there, because actually using it for anything just rereleases the carbon.














  • I was merely acknowledging that there are two extremes to this mental struggle: loneliness, and people who are overwhelmed by having too much contact.

    And that’s the problem. While those two extremes do exist, this post is not about people overwhelmed by having too much contact, it’s about literally the exact opposite. OP made this post looking for support and validation of the loneliness they feel, and your first response was essentially “Yeah that’s sucks for you, but I and many other people desperately crave the thing you suffer from”. You’re not wrong, the issue of people feeling overwhelmed is an equally valid issue, but there’s a time and place to bring it up, and this post wasn’t it.

    My piece of advice is if someone presents an issue to you(or in this case, lemmy at large) and is looking for support or advice on the issue from you, avoid contrasting their issue against other issues at all costs. No matter how well intentioned you are(and I DO believe you were well intentioned, fwiw), at BEST it will come across as “that sucks but others have it worse” and at worst it can come across as “that’s not an issue most people have, so thinking it’s an issue means you are the problem”.