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What if there's already nothing left to save? There's microplastics in the clouds and soil and our blood and brains. Climate disasters and warming are happening faster than scientists thought it would and all the governments in the whole world are just protecting the corporations and billionaires that are causing this. We're not safe, too much irriversable damage has been done already and its getting worse even more and I'm so scared. We could hit so many tipping points that will kill everyone very soon if things dont change completely from how it is now. I'm only in high school I just want a future. Please tell me I have a future

Hi Anon,

I received a bunch of asks similar to this one over the last several days, and I’m not sure if they are all from you or just a lot of people feeling similarly—but I’m going to try to cover them all here.

First, you still have a future. Full stop. And if you don’t want to take it from me, take it from actual NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel, who said “I unequivocally reject, scientifically and personally, that children are somehow doomed to an unhappy life”.

The future may be harder and more complicated than we would have envisioned without the obstacle of climate impacts—it will certainly be different. But it can absolutely still be full of joy and fulfillment and happiness.

Climate change is not a switch that gets flipped when we reach a certain threshold and then almost everyone dies or lives in a post apocalyptic disaster-movie reality. Climate impacts mean a gradual increase in the difficulty of meeting everyone’s needs, mitigating increasing natural disasters, preserving vital ecosystems, etc. as the climate gets warmer. Tipping points may accelerate that change, but it's still not a matter of a "human society kill switch".

Second, I’m so sorry you are feeling this way. I’m sorry that you feel like your future has been taken from you before it’s even started, I’m sorry that you feel betrayed by the generations that came before you. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to be a high schooler right now, entering into adulthood at a time when the world is in such turmoil without the years of adult life experience to give some buffering perspective.

I know that looking at all the progress we still need to make it seems impossible that we will get anywhere close to where we need to be—but when I was in high school the idea that we would make as much progress as we have right now seemed laughably impossible. In my high school reality carbon capture was a sci-fi idea, electric cars were basically nonexistent, clean energy was such a negligible drop in the bucket that no one really believed could ever meet a significant portion of our energy needs, and climate change was generally considered a low-priority, "tree-hugger" issue if people even believed it was real.

The idea that we would have this much popular support, this much worldwide government action, this much investment and progress in clean energy and other climate solutions would have made my high school self cry with disbelieving happiness.

Every tenth of a degree of warming that we avoid will make life in the future measurably easier. We’ve already shifted that needle from 4 degrees to 2.7 in just a couple of decades. We need to keep pushing, but we are making progress and we have already steered the world away from the worst and most apocalyptic climate impacts.

Just getting this far is incredible, heroic work. That is millions of real humans that have been saved from death and poverty, that is an entire planet of people whose lives will be better than they would have been otherwise.

There is still a beautiful, vibrant, complex, life-giving world out there to save. Things will be different, the world will be different, but there is still a future to look forward to. And I would bet that when you've been out of high school for a couple of decades, the future you'll look back from will have seen a lot more progress than you're expecting right now.

(PS Just as a final side note, if you're feeling spiraling climate anxiety all the time, I would really encourage you to reach out to friends, family, or a therapist for support. Any kind of anxiety--climate related or not--can have a really awful impact on your mental health and we all need extra help sometimes (speaking as a very anxious person myself))

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A small comic about Palestine I created to appeal to more passive family and friends

Anyways if you have the money I urge you to donate to Ibraheem Hadi, a Palestinian who contacted me and whom I promised to highlight in relation to this comic:

Otherwise there is always a need for eSims to keep Gazans connected

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RTVS PALESTINE FUNDRAISER 2, April 11th - 13th

Beginning Friday the 11th, RTVS will be holding another 3-day weekend fundraising event for the people of Palestine.

It is a tragedy that Palestine is still enduring the same nightmarish conditions that they were this time last year. There has been little to no improvement in things as Israel continues to break ceasefires and block incoming aid as they try and continue their genocide. We would like to once again rally our community and as many others as we can reach to give what support we are able to to Palestine's people.

Like last year, the event will not be a traditional stream fundraiser, rather than pointing people at one donation point, we will be suggesting a number of different recipients for support. However, this year may be organized slightly differently than the way we did it last time; more information regarding that will be shared in the next few days once we confirm our plan. Overall, it's the same idea: all donations to Palestinians and aid groups will be tallied into our grand total for the event.

The all-day, all-weekend streaming event will once again feature a rotation of hosts from Radio TV Solutions putting on all kinds of events. Themed segments, classic segments, crazy gameshow-type beats, chill segments, gaming w/ Da Whole Crew and MORE await you. The event will be hosted at http://stream.rtvsfundraiser.live/. Mark your calendars, tell your friends, and GET READY!

🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA 🇵🇸

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lets have a watch…

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hello hlvrai people. i made my good friend @pestomoment watch it with me. we had some particular thoughts about benry. rate

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south winds blow silent

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Help us escape from Gaza and find a safe haven, I am ahmed ,we have lost everything, our home, our work and some of our loved ones, my only dream and hope is to save my family and find a safer place, please donate and share, every bit of help brings us closer to hope and finding a decent life, your donation is the key to hope for those who have lost everything, thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have given to me and my family and I wish you happiness and a beautiful life 🌹🙏

£12,032/30,000 raised so far let's keep this going!

Vetted by 90-ghost and Nabulsi

Donation link

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Raneen’s son had a successful surgery, however he needs weekly medicine. Donation info is in the linked post - it costs $100 every week by Thursday. If you don’t feel comfortable giving to my PayPal - which I totally understand - here is the GoFundMe

If you do give to my PayPal and want proof that I gave the money to Raneen, reply in the notes and I will DM the proof to you. I only give PayPal as an option because then the money will go to Raneen faster.

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little messenger

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Please don't skip it !!🇵🇸🍉

My little son Bahaa I can't believe what happened How will I tell him that he lost his room, his toys and his new bag.. How will I tell him that I tried to search under the rubble for the remains of his toys that he dreams of returning home to play with... Bahaa is 5 years old How will he understand all this.. He loves playing, writing and drawing Now he has no home, no playroom, no writing, no drawing, no education... I want to register Bahaa in a kindergarten so that he can write, draw and play again... He needs new clothes and a bag, notebooks, pens and drawings for the kindergarten in order to register him Help Bahaa

Here is my campaign link:

Any small donation can make a difference 🍉

If you can't donate, sharing our story will help us

Thank you so much for any support you can provide 💖.🌹

✅ Verified in the official list by @gaza-evacuation-funds

✅ Verified in the official list by @90-ghost

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🔴from chemistry teacher to Homeless pregnant and her family

🟢To the Tumblr community

•The war has ended, but the suffering continues.

•I will spend the remaining months of my pregnancy🤱 enduring the same hardships. Do

•We are still living in tents🥺 on the streets

•no homes, no jobs, and no clean water.😥

•We have no source of income, as our workplaces have been destroyed.😔

➡️https://gofund.me/69d9ed7c

€10 can make a difference❣️ 🙏

🛑💵No donation last 3 days👈

✅#am vetted

🟢@gaza-evacuation-funds

🟢@bilal-salah0

🟢@dlxxv-vetted-donatios

🟢@ana-bananya

🟢@khanger

🟢@a-shade-of-blue

€8,851/40,000 raised so far let's keep this going!

Donation link

Vetted by Gazaevacuationfunds here

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Hanan asked me to write a post about her suffering so that people might donate. @hananfamily7

read her post here

Vetted by @gazavetters, #152 on their verified list ✅

Vetted by @90-ghost here ✅

For the past 16 months, she and her family have been struggling to get healthy food and medicine for not only her and her husband, but their sick child and comatose elderly mother who almost died from anemia. Prices have risen over tenfold in gaza so they can’t access healthy food to prevent such sicknesses. Just a bag of flour is $300, and that’s mostly what they’ve been eating.

After the ceasefire donations have declined significantly, people likely thinking they don’t need them anymore, but nothing could be further than the truth. They’ve starved and frozen, only to return to their beloved home and find it a pile of rubble. Even if the bombs didn’t take their lives, they took so much more.

Their campaign has only raised $14,100 USD of their $30,000 goal

She and her husband are not used to asking for help, before the genocide hit them they’d graduated college and worked decent jobs, like Hanan was a child psychologist, but now donations are their only source of income, so they’ve been unable to get even the most basic necessities.

Now they even face the threat of Trump, who has vowed to help Israel wipe out Palestine.

They desperately need any help they can get, so they can continue to survive, and eventually escape Gaza to safety. No one of us can stop this genocide, but donating can at least save her family. I personally wasn’t able to donate, as I don’t even have a credit card, so they NEED other people to care.

The donations they’ve gotten have thankfully kept them fed and helped buy some other necessities, but they continue to need help affording these.

Share, reblog, repost, whatever to get it to someone who can donate, and hopefully donate yourself. They need it.

Their GoFundMe is https://gofund.me/b905b50e

And their PayPal is https://bit.ly/3C9TPFi

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No one’s donated to Shahed’s campaign in 11 days, please consider donating below. At least share her campaign so she regains momentum

Her journey so far is documented on her blogs @shahdhatem / @shahddmosa , you can also find endorsements from Nairuz there.

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No one wants to leave the country they grew up in, but news like this shows how difficult it is to live in Gaza with homes, schools and hospitals destroyed.

So I hope you can help me evacuate my family from Gaza so that my father can get treatment abroad. I beg everyone who sees this to either donate or participate so that we can get out of this nightmare.

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Imagine giving everything you have to protect and provide for your loved ones, only to have war rip it all away, leaving you with nothing but a tent and the hope to rebuild.

Images: Hossam and his children before and after the start of the conflict.

@hanoon-gaza

Story written by @visionsofaselfmademan

This is heartbreaking reality for Hossam Al-Qazzaz and his family in Gaza. A hardworking father of four, Hossam lost his home and his job due to relentless bombardments. Now, he, his wife Hanan, and their four children—Bashar (9), Hani (8), Diana (4), and 3-month-old Habiba—live in a makeshift tent next to the ruins of their former home. The family’s struggle is compounded by war-induced poverty, deteriorating health, and the inability to afford basic necessities like food, clothing, or even milk and diapers for little Habiba, who was born during the war.

Image: Habiba, only a few months old, was born in the midst of the conflict. Her family struggles to provide milk and diapers for her due to mass shortages caused by the war.

The pressure of Hossam's responsibilities goes beyond his children. He also cares for his elderly parents, aged 75 and 72, both of whom are in poor health. His father suffers from severe burns and requires urgent medical treatment, while his mother battles high blood pressure and needs constant care. Despite his determination, Hussam is unable to meet these overwhelming needs on his own.

Image: Hossam's elderly father, who was severely burned in occupation bombings and requires extensive medical care.

The family dreams of building a modest, safe home to shield them from the harsh elements and protect them from further dangers. They are not asking for much—just the chance to live in dignity and provide their children with a future.

However, the funds they’ve managed to raise so far amount to only €2,280, which is far from enough to meet their basic needs or realize their dream of stability.

Image: Despite tireless efforts, Hossam's GoFundMe campaign has only managed to raise €2,280—a mere 4% of their overall goal.

Hossam's plea is simple yet urgent: help them secure food, clothes, and medical care for their children and elderly parents. Every small donation—no matter how modest—has the power to change their lives. Prices for essentials like rice and cooking gas have skyrocketed, leaving them struggling to prepare even the simplest meals.

Image: Widespread food shortages have made providing food for his family a daily struggle for Hossam.

"All we want is to live in dignity," Hossam writes.

Image: with no other way to cook meals, the Al-Qazzaz family uses a fire...but even simple items like cooking gas are exorbitantly expensive.

Help Hossam and his family today by donating or sharing his family's story. Your support can help ensure that Hossam’s family doesn’t just survive, but begins to rebuild a life of safety and hope.

Together, we can provide the support they desperately need to weather this unimaginable crisis.

You can donate to Hossam's GoFundMe page [HERE].

Hossam's campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters and is (#287) on their list of verified campaigns.

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People waiting the IDf to withdraw from the Rashid Street to back to their homes in the North.

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Imagine standing in line under the scorching sun, clutching an empty water jug, knowing it will take hours before you can fill it with the bare minimum to survive.

@amanyay556

Story written by @visionsofaselfmademan

This is the harsh reality for Amany Ayyad and their family, who have been displaced by war and forced into a life of unimaginable hardship. Their once-stable home was reduced to ashes, leaving them to seek shelter in a fragile tent that offers no safety from the elements or the violence surrounding them.

Amany's story is one of resilience in the face of relentless adversity. When the war began, it stripped their family of everything they held dear—food, shelter, and the simple joys of life. Now, each day is a battle for survival. Basic necessities like cooking gas, hygiene essentials, and even bread have become rare luxuries. Preparing a small meal feels like a miracle, as bakeries remain inaccessible, and supplies are scarce.

The war has stolen more than just material possessions; it has robbed the Ayyad children of their dreams and ambitions. Where there was once laughter, there is now silence filled with worry and fear. Amany speaks of waiting in endless lines just for water, and the haunting difficulty of burying loved ones because there is no space left for the dead. Every moment is a reminder of how their world has been upended.

Despite the overwhelming challenges, Amany continues to hope for a better future. Their GoFundMe campaign seeks to raise funds to evacuate their family to safety and peace, far from the destruction and despair that now define their lives. With your help—whether through donations or by sharing their story—they can begin to rebuild and find solace in a world that feels so far out of reach.

You can donate to Amany’s GoFundMe [HERE].

This campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters, and is (#289) on their list of verified campaigns.