New to the sub, I've read through a couple of threads already but I wanted to post my own just to scream into the void. I don't know what my goal with this is, but if you have any advice, thoughts or joyfully distracting comments, that'd be nice :)

I'm a 25 y/o, currently in my first year of student teaching. I'm vegan, car-free, flight-free and live in a small apartment fuelled by clean energy and furnished w second-hand everything. I'm truly trying the best I can, but it isn't and can't ever be enough due to the selfishness of the 1% and the ignorance of the 10%.

My climate grief has skyrocketed this year and it seriously keeps me from trying to enjoy the few years of pretend-normalcy I have left (I'm from Germany, so I'm already in a pretty priviliged situation).

It's my dad's 56th birthday today and while everyone is celebrating, I occasionally have to leave the situation to cry due to the fact that there's a pretty good chance I won't ever get to be as old as my father is today.

I've tried talking…