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> Governments won't solve this issue. We the consumers have to solve it, the problem is that nobody gives a fuck. Consumers will never "solve the problem". Why
by another-cuppa 8y ago
> Governments won't solve this issue. We the consumers have to solve it, the problem is that nobody gives a fuck.
Consumers will never "solve the problem". Why would they? Why would someone downgrade their lifestyle when everyone around them continues to live unsustainably and are more happy as a result? It's all or nothing, and only governments can enforce that.
- bigbugbag 8y agoSo according to you there is no possible solution for people living in the zomia[1] despite people in the zomia actually living in a sustainable way. Governements is something we could do without and probably fare much better, the logic is simple when you do not relinquish your sovereignity to a hierachy of power then you are in power and feel responsible of your own life so you are an actor of your own life and consequences instead of being a passive consumer, consuming things to try to alleviate fearful living of an unfilfilling life. Happy and fulfilled people do not consume. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomia_%28geography%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomia_%28geography%29
- another-cuppa 8y agoBut we are already living unsustainably. I don't believe for a second that if governments were disbanded everyone would downgrade their lifestyles to become sustainable. It's one thing preventing inflation to the point of unsustainability, it's quite another to require deflation.