I think there is something to be said about the way the importance that should be lended to climate change and but as well to the mental health of those affected by it--so basically everyone. Though none the less, from my personal experience regarding the very real anxiety that I feel in regard to the changes happening all around us. I have dealt on and off throughout my entire life with intensive anxiety, but particularly when it comes to the regards of climate change. It has been something that resided within my mind for a lot of my adult life and many others. I don't want to say that there is a particular way in which understanding this ongoing crisis and the very real solutions that can be an ease on the way that I feel, but there's a line in which it becomes paralyzing. I want to ask if that is better than the use of joking about very real issues happening all around us and what the consequences of them are. In early 2020 when we were just beginning to experience the pandemic that would morph our way of living forever, is when the anxiety struck me a lot more harshly than it had before. I would chalk it honestly up to the fact alone that we all had a lot more time on our hands to reflect not only ourselves but the world around us. It was something that terrified me and on top of it all, it felt as though those within my generation didn't take it seriously--or at least didn't handle it with the care that I thought was important to something else that would change our world so drastically.
I do understand the sense of joking about things that we can't control that is frequent within my own age group, I am even guilty of doing it myself at times. Though it felt in the midst of another crisis and everything falling apart on a scale that no one really knew had to understand during the pandemic, that a trend rose up on apps like Tiktok. This was at least in my experience, that people would frequently post satirically content in which they offhandedly mention that ice caps are melting, the seas are rising, and that their future may not be existent at all. I absolutely understand that growing up in a particular generation where things seem to be so modernized but still, we are struggling with things so far out of control--and one in which those that are older than us have seemingly created without a care. It all equals a terrifying amount of lack of taste with these jokes. In my opinion there are both deserve to be demonized from a standpoint of coming off dismissive of something we are already in the midst of, but admirable in some degree because I know that they come from a place of feeling powerless. None the less, they caused a certain struggle and anxiety in my own mental health during that time. One that sometimes I still struggle with when sitting within courses where that is the primary discussion, such as this one. Though I do believe it is good for it to be part of the curriculum, a crucial reminder of the hand that we are dealt and how to slowly aid nature to the best of our ability. I also think that its aides me in particular, since I still do feel a sense of helplessness even now. I believe as I grow older that there is less of a need for that and a desire to help what I am able for the world around us. I have always had an afinity towards nature and the silence that it allows me from the constant noise of life. It has a beauty that is near to me as it reminds me of lighter times with my family members, so I believe even beyond my own personal attachments that it deserves to be adequately reflected upon. That despite a certain lack of weight that my generation has caused this it does fall to us to restore what we are able, and I plan to do all that I am able to restore and help ease the burden we have put upon our planet and nature.
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