@a0b872c9
To add to this, an article from early this year I posted, pointing out a si.ilar thing, people with money who caused this, making it worse. Alas they are legion in here; still driving cars, flying and usibg vast amounts of energy to "insulate" themselves from the consequences of their GHG emissions.
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*The new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and change*
https://theconversation.com/the-new-climate-denial-using-wealth-to-insulate-yourself-from-discomfort-and-change-199101
@a6b36542
I dont agree that's the problem but let's take it that it is, that can only change if voters insist by voting out the orthodoxy and voting for new politcans who will change the laws eg The Greens and we move the Overton Window.
You won't magically change anything by voting for the same politcans and expecting different results. So in that respect, the article is still on point becase that's all we.do.
@3967703f
>"I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don't know how to do that." - James Gustave Speth
@bf6ed480
And I'd be ok if we were all blithely unaware, or had no option (giant asteroid, mega volcano etc) ...but we're not, we know how to stop it and what has to be done and yet choose not to.
I guess human stupidity has endless prescience; WW1, WW2, Ukraine War, Myanmar, national borders, religion etc so we should be completly surprised, it's just never been existential like this.
I struggle to find the words to describe how utterly bizzare all of this is? It's like quantum physics to me, completly incomprehensible :)
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