Human Brains Aren't Wired to Fight Climate Change | Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts
Human Brains Aren't Wired to Fight Climate Change | Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts
A lot of "we" talk. I don't run a lot of industries, so I don't think we're equal levels of culpable
Yeah I don’t remember spilling 50,000 tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico
You are right, but if it weren’t for the amount of consumers and our growing appetite for conveniences the world would look hell of a lot differently.
Now we’re at a point where meaningful climate action would be a sacrifice so big not many of us selfish little pieces of shit would take. No more plastic, no more meat, no more cars, no more global overnight shipping for items you don’t even need. We’ve grown very accustomed to things we only just recently realized are extremely expensive and we cant afford them. Too bad that the people who make those things are even less willing to stop selling them to us, than we are to buy. We really are screwed, because one day it’ll all abruptly stop. There will be no gradual progression into the climate extinction. We will be pretending we’re not at fault until our dying breaths.
'We' can't address climate change because the global elite are dependent on the profits from harming the environment to fill their money banks, and it turns out they have all the power.
I do not need to rewire my brain, I need to build power structure so that I can eat the rich w/ that donut
Right? You could use this argument for why all delayed gratification is essentially impossible (but also something people regularly do), or why it's impossible to stop murder or other illegal activity. Some sort of police force would just be impossible in an ancap world after all...
Do you not believe that in a functioning democracy, such as some found in europe, you could simply vote to address climate change?
I live in Germany. People here could easily vote to "eat the rich" and to reduce emissions. But they don't, and they won't. Voluntarily.
In the usa we did vote for AL gore, who campaigned pretty much solely on stopping climate change.
When it became clear gore would win, the Supreme Court stopped counting ballots and gave the win to Bush, an oil tycoon who went to war for oil. Later Kavanaugh, who worked the case for Bush, was given a lifetime appointment to the same court for their effective cronyism
So yes, the global elite are the reason here.
Our failure to act isn’t just short-sightedness; it’s willful ignorance. This may be the result of another flaw in human wiring: We tend to assume the future will look a lot like the present, so even if the present is slightly worse than the past, it’s hard for us to imagine things could get even worse still.
Well obviously the people in this bloomberg piece have to talk to the nyt piece's scientist.
“This is not a science problem; it’s a political problem,” Dessler said in an interview. “If we don’t solve it, it’s because we chose not to solve it, not because we didn’t have the solution.”
Ah. They've read that report. They've read it and realize that what might be done is not going to be done unless we install lawmakers who force solutions down our collective throats.