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Cynical rant ahead. I have given up hope about any meaningful change when it comes to climate change. Earth overshoot day, when humanity has used up all of ear
by Johnny_Brahms 10y ago
Cynical rant ahead.
I have given up hope about any meaningful change when it comes to climate change. Earth overshoot day, when humanity has used up all of earth's resources for this year and is borrowing from the future, comes earlier every year. Yet any politician that strives for zero growth is discarded as irrational and stupid.
So what do they do? In my home country all the heavy industries has moved to cheaper countries, so now they get to brag that our CO2e emissions have gone down, when the truth is we just exported them.
No one will ever take any political decision that will lead to a big decline in what we perceive as quality of life. Instead, there are investments that will boost some sort of fantasy climate change reducing tech that will give more people jobs so that they can consume even more...
- cmurf 10y agoYeah but we do this with everything. We borrow against our future selves with credit cards, and student loans, and mortgages. We borrow against future generations, in good times and bad, hence the massive national debt: in bad times borrowing softens the blow is the argument, and then in good times "it's your money not the government's" to argue for tax cuts and continue the borrowing. In the aggregate, we're a stupid short sighted self important primate. And the vast majority of that debt has gone toward blowing shit up, and maintaining the preeminent ability to blow shit up. But then we have scared little white old bunny rabbits who keep voting for scared fat white old bunny rabbits who talk about diplomacy being bullshit and turning the middle east into glass is the solution for our problems. It's a neurological disorder up and down the voting scale. So, surprising? Not at all.