it is because hate and contempt are the easiest ones that we opt for while if we work for the kindness and love we would struggle at first yes but the end result would be much better,
Imagine it as working out for your body but for your emotions.

But it takes years to make the improvements, and when the other kind of administration comes to power, which it always does, it takes them hardly any time at all to tear it all down again. Ultimately, the wealth and power never stays with the people. — Vera Mont

Yeah it's just a matter of keeping the power on the people's hands rather than giving ultimate power to the governments or the ones with the wealth.

Heard.... but never seen. — Vera Mont

actually around the time Atatürk was alive he had made many improvements to give power to the people rather than focusing more on power to the government.

He built factories changed, entirety of how education worked so that a middle school graduate could have known alot of things even before going to high school yet it all changed over time as he died and people eventually lost the power they had on their hands.

Hamlet calls humans "the paragon of animals". Shakespeare was as aware as we are how flawed our species is, but sure: in some ways we are paragons, but we are also deeply flawed in our inability to regularly and effectively act in the present to avoid somewhat distant or uncertain harms. What might be clear vision is clouded by emotions, misinformation, missing information, aspirations, hopes, greed, fear, wishful thinking, etc. Even love clouds our vision. — BC

We are overrun by emotions as a species and sometimes let our emotions get in the way of our actions if we have no self-control. But why would someone be let in charge if that person has no self-control or even worse, can get impulsive and act on it really easily?

There are many examples of this kind of people throughout our history and nearly all of them majorly caused a type of alarmism,doomerism to their own people just because they lack self-control.

The thing

Actually, we are doing fairly well with global warming. Billions of flawed people recognize it and worry about it. Every day millions of individual minute actions are directed toward reducing waste. It is our misfortune that the problem of methane and CO2 in the atmosphere has reached high enough levels that we can't undo the damage by small actions. 99.9% of the world's population are not in a position to enact very big changes, and the 1/10th of 1% that could are greedy bastards, for the most part, that can't let go of opportunities to get even richer. — BC

The fact that we can't do anything or just doing minor fixes even when all of us gathered together tells alot about the current system that is in place.

There is a saying that the first leader and creator of Turkey said and it goes like this;

Türkiye’nin gerçek sahibi ve efendisi, gerçek üretici olan köylüdür. O halde, herkesten daha çok refah, mutluluk ve servete hak kazanmış ve lâyık olan köylüdür." — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Which with a rough translation means:
"The real owner and master of Turkey is the people, who is the real producer. Therefore, it is the people who is entitled to and deserves more prosperity, happiness and wealth than anyone else."

We do, in fact, suck at running things. We are each individually and all taken together, our own worst enemy. — Fire Ologist

True, we do suck at running things but maybe its not in our nature to "run things" and we should instead focus on building our structures,ideas,beliefs around the already existant nature that used to, and still tries to run things for us?

Our planet is the one that gives us the resources we need to build and thrive, instead of helping it create more resources we just take more than we need and end up damaging it more in the end.

I mean the ones taxing us to death are a problem but not the only problem we have on our hands. How many people that know about the global warming crisis yet, don't do anything about it?

What about companies putting recycling bins and trash cans next to each other and connect them underneath while the unsuspecting recycler is thinking he/she is saving the world.

We are about to doom ourselves because of the greed we have as humanity.

I mean is it worth to have nuclear weapons in hand? one wrong, idiotic decision could lead to a mass destruction and killing innocent people,families,children just because some people wanted to push the big red button out of hatred for another person that rules the country.

What is the foundation fo your ethical system - how does one determine what the good is? When we say something 'needs to' happen is there more than self-interest at work? — Tom Storm

I still haven't figured out what the ethical system could be as It is a bit hard finding a true balance between what we say is "good" or "bad"

Throughout history the perception of beauty was through how inbred royal families looked so maybe our understanding of "good" may not be the best one there is. Yet I still feel like helping each other in a way without harm would be a step towards the right direction, whereas crushing each other in a race that no one truly understands might be one of the "bad" things that we have done/doing in our current day and age.

I feel like a society intertwined with nature might be a way to go for example:
Stockholm wood city

The stockholm wooden city is what I think of a great example. As we do not need and deserve the dull,grey,doomerist and minimalist architecture that we have at most places we need to see colour in our lives yet the places that we live in only have a small color range compared to the wast beauty and color range of our planet.

And we don't really know when it all goes to shit. As no doubt it one day will. — Tom Storm

We can only work on prolonging the inevitable, but still who wouldn't want to see and give the resources for the human civilization venture into the stars one day?

The mere action of kindness can bring a sense of euphoria to a person while hatred only brings more hatred towards each other tell me, would you prefer being loved or just hating on everyone and everything for the majority of your time here?

And still in no position to reverse the trends or stop the wars or turn off the gas. Meanwhile other 75...76....77...78....79% are coming for your clothes and food. Even in the top 8%, your vote doesn't count. — Vera Mont

that is why I think unionization should happen. Even though one person does not have a voice on their own. When several join together they can be heard more and more as people get together and understand each others problems. We are fighting fire with fire and instead we should put out this fire of hatred in all of us by showing love,kindness and understanding and soon others will follow.

The more a person feels hatred grow within them the more they lose control of themselves and their actions.

The breakdown and polarization of society is something seen mostly online — Christoffer

I agree. Even though there are small examples of this in the real world it is a minor part of whats going on in the internet, yet we still feel the effects of it in some weird way almost as if the internet is slowly becoming part of our real world and inhabiting us within itself.

Climate change will not end humanity, it will, at most, end some cultures — Christoffer

The end effects of it might be on a huge scale but on the other hand if we can manage to pull through without crossing the border of global warming I think that its effects can be atleast reduced or slowed down but, If we cannot pull through and end up making a bad decision after another, we may be looking at the end.

The fact that not enough investments have been made for space to leave this place we call "home" and instead all major investments were made in destroying it with building better and better guns to kill each other and the earth.

This place was once beautiful yes, but now If you look at earth from space you can see the amount of destruction man has caused. And unless we pull our things together and find a way to save ourselves or atleast give it a try, I don't think even the richest person alive is getting out of this

Yes but, Only %1 of the %1 are rich enough to pull strings around people that decide the fate of most of us in the long run.
While we don't have nearly half of the power that they have if the majority decides to unite and simply not get divided in the long run of things the rest will come too.
we can be the ones that get to actually get to choose our own fates as a person.

Thank you. I have told several people about this but turns out people are "scared" about the end of the world so had to keep it to myself like most of my work.

We've crossed it The permafrost is no longer permanent and the polar ice sheets are calving like demented rabbits — Vera Mont

While this is true there still is time left on the matter and unless we work together as one in this society we won't be able to stop our Inevitable end.

What's been done by private enterprise is more hype than change. — Vera Mont

There are still some private enterprise doing "good work" but the ones that sell the most usually tend to be the greediest ones for example; Apple, "being sustainable" by removing cables in boxes but in the end creating more plastic waste just for you to buy another box of cables to charge the phone you just bought. The greed of thoose are the ones keeping us on the ground and stopping humanity from reaching its true potential among gods.

steadily siphoning money out of circulation — Vera Mont

I do believe that money is just a concept now more than a physical thing, as Most of the global gold reserves don't even exist or don't equate to the money in circulation. Now currencies are being kept by a system that is unfathomable by most. Or just flat-out hidden, But people fail to realise that the problem is within the economic system created where we enable our greeds to take the better of us instead of helping each other create a better environment for ourselves where we can thrive and flourish.

Prolonging the complacent okayhood of a prosperous minority for a few extra decades is not quite the same as "it didn't happen then, so it can't happen now" which is what I've been hearing more and more frequently since the 1960's.
I'm sure the same wisdom was repeated in every great defunct empire. — Vera Mont

I sometimes think that history constantly repeats itself its just a matter of finding the loop point and evading the actions taken by corrupt,greedy people and instead choosing to go on a way of prosperity.

Of course I am not saying that this is something that can be done In a lifetime, but still the foundations can be made for future generations to continue atleast this one good heritage we will leave to them.

Everything ends. Not if, but when. — Vera Mont

While I think this is true, I think that Everything stays, right where you left it.

Could be, but still does not explain how they had predicted the upcoming solar flares years in the future.

Yes, I have read about it aswell, but I have also read that the readings may be off by a 100-75 years or so I did not see it as a major concern at the time.
But nevertheless still interesting how they accurately predicted many solar eclipses at that time.

My biggest fear now is that humanity and the earth will be decimated by the attempts to "solve" global-warming/climate-change. — Agree-to-Disagree

That is also one of my main concerns.

As more and more media shows signs to a world ending scenario, we fail to realize the "right" way of doing things, ending this type of problems comes through with us as humans coming together, living and working under one society while sharing knowledge,wisdom and emotions that no longer need to be hidden inside.

I feel like humanity needs to flourish in a way that they take each others ideas and beliefs more seriously and emphatize with them and instead find meaning in each other.

Rather than crushing each other for a small pay raise or letting our greed get over us by not sharing something we don't need to the people that actually need it and instead deciding to sell it. Sometimes for considerably funny amounts of money.

As a society we should take less responsibility on the part of working extra hard to get a small raise and instead dedicate that time to helping the ones in need,helping each other essentially creating a better world for us and more to come.

Yes that is a good point, there are many "catastrophic" events that could have happened yet was always diverted due to everyone or every country working together for example; the acid rains that used to happen are to some extent, no more. However, what intrigued me was what you said about

Nothing much changes. — Tom Storm

as I am a bit new to this world, I couldn't get to see the changes like you did but still came to the conclusion of nothing changing at some point and reading about a person that read letters in the 80's say nothing changes is a big thing for me. As in the technology we have created seems to be improving, yet its not that much different from the devices back in 1980's only change is that they are getting faster and smaller in size, I feel like we as humans don't do anything much with the technological capability that we have on our hands. or even the technological wonder that we were born with; our brains. Humans get this gift of a supercomputer built in them but never achieve its true potential, just like with the computers that we currently own. And I feel like this might be the reason why we might have a close falling. Some fail to use gifts that we were given as a birthright to them and lose its capabilities to either an addiction or just not using it. As In addiction I mean that being a fanatic,overly supporting a political belief or being extremely religious etc.. I am not saying thoose things shouldn't happen but some people take it to a state of extremisim and get seperated from their belief of becoming one as a society by supporting each other thus creating an almost utopic scenario for our world. And I feel like these events such as; Greenhouse,Reagan,nukes or global warming are major events that might start a utopic scenario or end us as a whole depending on the way it is approached nevertheless, I hope we take the path of an utopic scenario then a end that can easily be averted. The sensless creations of man should come to an end and we should work on building a better future for many to come by actually helping each other.