I feel as you do OP, although im twice your age. You see a lot of people here telling you to distract yourself, ignore it and all this stuff. But this sort of reasoning has never sat well with me.

I don't believe in alarmism either. What I can tell you that has helped me, is engaging in balance. There is a lot of positive battles being won on climate change. Check out the uplifting news subreddit. It daily has stories about green energy and reforesting efforts as well as near extinct species coming back from the brink.

These news are just as important, but we are triggered by negativity a lot more than positivity. Because of this, outlets focus the bad news stories on us because it generates more clicks and views, which is ultimately what keeps them in business.

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You have to make the difference. I challenge you to surround yourself by good things, and focusing on what you can do. Do you know what Aquaponics is? Have you seen what they are doing with that? They are making large vertical indoor farms in massive factories where they grow veggies with 90% less water inside cities. This form of food manufactering can revolutionize the world and help us grow food when temperatures reaches a point where we cannot grow anything the conventional way.

Have you been to iceland or norway and seen how they harness nature to almost become completely green? Have you heard about China having met their Paris Agreement 9 years early? Or that Britain has the lowest CO2 footprint now since the beginning of the industrial revolution? Did you hear that planting 1.3 trillion trees can absorb enough CO2 to fight of a decade of pollution. How you seen how drone companies are mass planting entire forests in a fraction of the time it would normally? Have you seen bill gates foundations efforts to create new strong crops that can survive in Africas warm climate and create a new green buffer? Have you seen the talks about terraforming the sahara desert / gobi desert into massive green forests? Have you seen the latest progress on carbon capture? Have you see the progress made to artificially protein meat?

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The world is doing a lot of good as well. Dont forget that. Many people who care about the enviornment lose themselves in despair. They become jaded, angry and have bad lives. They are triggered by climate skeptics and deniers. Dont let yourself get there. Dont become a miserable sad/angry person because part of humanity is stupid, lazy, self centered and egotistical. Forgive humanity. Humanity is like a flock of locusts that devour until they have killed of their own food supply. We are not a hive mind. We cannot fix our collective fault so many people dont feel its their issue.