log: some climate doom and optimism I read, 2026-05-06

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 ## 2026-05-06
 
-### www.tiktok.com/@thegarbagequeen
+### @{uninhabitable-earth}
+
+A classic case in climate doomerism.
+
+### @{against-climate-doom}
+
+Argues for optimism about the future regarding climate, because good things are
+happening and have already happened.
+
+### @{hickman-2021}
+
+An article in the Lancet claiming to prove that climate anxiety, and feelings of
+helplessness, despair, powerlessness, fear, and betrayal by governments are
+widespread amongst children in many countries.
+
+### @{science-under-siege}
+
+I found an excerpt online from this talking about doomerism. A ploy of the
+plutocrats and petrostates, as well as influencers just looking for views. They
+smear the science as 'hopium' and portray scientists as addicts and dealers.
+
+### @{wwf-climate-doomers}
+
+You can't trust doomers, because that's a lie employed as a rhetorical tactic by
+the bad people to keep you from exercising your power. In fact, you do have
+power, which you can exercise by washing your laundry in cold water, talking
+about your action with your friends, voting. We need everyone to take part, and
+lots of good things might happen if we all do it together all over the world.
+
+I think the appeal that you have power is not effective, and serves to make me
+feel powerless, and distrust the author. However, I noticed that the author is
+effective at dealing with the doomer narrative, very aware that this text cannot
+stand in isolation, but the audience receives it as part of a diverse literary
+landscape, deals with counter-narratives: they're bad people in it for profit.
+
+### www.tiktok.com/\@charlesmcbryde
+
+The planet isn't dying, it's being murdered, by fascist politicians and the
+fossil fuel lobby that props them up. For the good thing to happen, they need to
+be stripped of their power.
+
+### www.tiktok.com/\@thegarbagequeen
 
 People tell you that we're cooked, but they're wrong, because, as the IPCC
 points out, we can still do things to mitigate climate change by drastically