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Ah yes, the Belgium Congo - a location known for wide turning circles and nice flat, even road surfaces.

Sure, but that’s not my decision to make. The ask was for other communities that are not politics focused. If people want to gather in one of those over another, that’s their choice not mine. I just listed some I’m aware of, that’s all.

• https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope
• https://slrpnk.net/c/energy
• https://feddit.uk/c/goodnews
• https://kbin.social/m/goodnews
• https://sh.itjust.works/c/goodnewseveryone
• https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
• https://lemmy.world/c/lemmybewholesome
• https://slrpnk.net/c/reclamation
• https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
• https://slrpnk.net/c/zerowaste

Some of these communities are more active than others, so if you do find them interesting/valuable please post.

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Are they trying to say this is a good thing or a bad thing?

They’re a really neat idea for improving the environment for bugs and other nesting insects

https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/wildlife-friendly-garden/wildlife-by-species/bees-butterflies-bugs

Or you can quite easily make one yourself!

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-bug-mansion

Lol, I did. I hadn’t realised that the slow little tree teddys were such a fucking mess of a creature.

No one said anything about mindless optimism. You are correct, change is needed and fast, but relentless pessimism achieves nothing except foster defeat. I’m advocating for a realistic approach to how we look at climate change mitigation. Part of being realistic is understanding that things may not be as hopeless as parts of the Internet would like you to believe.

The amount of Doomers on Lemmy and Reddit is depressingly large as well. It’s du jour to act like any talk of climate positivity is naive, change is impossible and collapse is inevitable. Just look at the popularity of whole subs dedicated to Collapse and Doomer material. It’s exhausting trying to challenge the position of some of these users, yet we must try. Hope is an important part of tackling the climate challenges we’re facing, and the glamorisation of defeatism isn’t going to help foster that.