#HOPE

[hylianengineer]

Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

#hylian rambles #climate change #climate crisis #environmental issues #global warming #hope #hope for the future #hope for the planet #earth day

[reasonsforhope]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot

#not news #life #advice #hope #adolescence #teens #adulthood #adulting #growing up #getting older #life advice #abuse mention #autonomy

[firsttarotreader]

Pedro Pascal in “Hope”, a short film for Style Magazine Italia, August 2018.

Thirsting Sunday! 🥵🥵

#pedro pascal #pedro pascal fandom #hope #style magazine #short film

[littlealienproducts]

Hope-Fine Art Giclee Print by Heidi Griffiths

#Heidi Griffiths #Heidi Griffiths art #art print #art prints #hope #rainbow #pigeon #illustration #art

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #10531

  One day you'll have a house with a porch. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

#help #hope #mental illness #mental health #reason to live #guest submission

[operation-hot-race]

#riverdale #hope #mob pyscho 100 #figure #bruce wayne x reader #halsey #salma hayek #bulimima #demon slayer smut #gigi hadid #rusame #miranda cosgrove

[remain-alone-technology-watch]

#weirdcore #fox #lilli luxe #jaebum #link #genyatta #hairy gay #hope #figure #halsey

[alwaysrememberjesus]

Be Patient, God Is At Work

#god #jesus #christ #holy spirit #bible #scripture #christianity #church #prayer #pray #faith #hope #love #Grace #mercy #patience #daily devotional #devotional

[heartofmuse]

Some days I fight the urge to curl up into a ball and just shut everything out. Life seems to heavy a burden to even try, but I try to breath through the despair, and not let the darkness consume me whole. There is also light that the darkness needs to make room for.

e.v.e.

#reminders #mental health #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poets on tumblr #quote #writers on tumblr #writerscreed #quotes #poeticstories #bitsofstarglow #inkstay #poets of tumblr #writers of tumblr #poetic #hope #fighter

[selveristsaatan]

dont mind me just thinking about breekon and hope after listening to mag 128:

#“she took him from me” #“she made made /us/ a /me/” #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #breekon #hope #breekon and hope #tma spoilers

[simomagicsoul]

His touch brings wilted hearts back to life, blossoming with hope and joy like a gentle rain on barren soil. In his embrace, love blooms anew, transforming the landscape into a vibrant garden of renewal and passion.

#touches #blooming #hope #joy #love #magic #passion #desire #deep feelings #happiness #together #my endless love #romance quotes #photo pinterest #21|04|2024

[bo7le]

i’m coping so badly rn

#yuri on ice #hope #yuri #anime

[reasonsforhope]

"Despite a huge amount of political opposition from the chemical industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its first regulations aimed at limiting quantities of PFAs, or ‘forever chemicals,’ in American drinking water.

For decades, Polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAs have been used for coatings that resist fire, oil, stains, and water and are now found in a wide variety of products like waterproof clothing, stain-resistant furniture, food packaging, adhesives, firefighting spray foams, and non-stick cooking surfaces.

There are thousands of PFAS compounds with varying effects and toxicity levels, and the new EPA regulations will require water utilities to test for 6 different classes of them.

The new standards will reduce PFAS exposure—and thereby decrease the health risk—for 100 million people in the U.S.

A fund worth $1 billion for treatment and testing will be made available to water utilities nationwide—part of a $9 billion investment made possible by the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to assist communities impacted by PFAS contamination.

“Drinking water contaminated with PFAS has plagued communities across this country for too long,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in a statement Wednesday.

Under Regan’s leadership, the EPA began in 2021 to establish a roadmap for dealing with widespread PFAS contamination, and so far they’ve gathered much data, including monitoring drinking water, and begun requiring more reports from businesses about use of the unregulated substances.

The agency reported that current peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that exposure to certain levels of PFAS may lead to a myriad of health issues that are difficult to specify because of the variety of compounds coming from different places.

Regardless, the 66,000 water utility operators will have five years to test for the PFAS pollution and install necessary technology to treat the contamination, which the EPA estimates that 6%–10% of facilities will need. [Note: Deeply curious where they got a number that low, but anyway.]

Records show that some of the manufacturers knew these chemicals posed health hazards. A few major lawsuits in recent years have been settled that sought to hold chemical companies, like 3M, accountable for the environment damage.""

-via Good News Network, April 13, 2024

#united states #pfas #forever chemicals #epa #environmental protection agency #water quality #water pollution #clean water #good news #hope

[old-school-romantics]

#hayao miyazaki #words #dark academia #spilled words #light academia #dark aesthetic #quotes #love quotes #japanese #studio ghibli #hope #oldschoolromantics

[runningwithwolvesss]

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum”.

#poetry #literature #english #words #life quotes #world #quotes #dark academia #classic literature #inspiringwords #nature #hope #aesthetic #running with the wolves

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #10525

  To write something that evokes a feeling in you and that you're proud of. – Guest Submission

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#help #hope #mental illness #mental health #reason to live #guest submission