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Short term thinking is not going to solve the global climate crisis.

• NeedMoreTea 7y ago
  Politicians are mainly incapable of thinking beyond their term - the next election. Just look at politician's willingness to commit deliberate national suicide via Brexit. All the current Tory leadership candidates are now trying to out-extremist all the others. There was no plan B, there remains no plan B. National security is perhaps the one issue that can partly escape being expressed solely in economic and short termism of this administration's term only. Now whether politicians can start to believe climate actually is an issue of security remains to be seen.
  • jsilence 7y ago
    There is no solution in building walls and upping border security. That is expensive fighting against the symptoms, draining resources and attention from the real issue at hand. Trying to trick politicians and decision makers into at least some action will not solve anything. On the contrary, it is going to be harmful for the overall cause.
    • NeedMoreTea 7y ago
      Eh? What does building walls and border security have to do with solving the climate crisis? Nothing at all. Nor is it a case of tricking anyone. I'm talking in terms of treating it as an existential threat to national (and global) security. As it is for some countries already, and will inevitably become for all if we don't move orders of magnitude faster. Which deserves a reaction akin to the existential threat nations faced in WW1 and WW2. Directed production, rationing, war economy budgets, a long term view as well as short term tactics etc. If the world leaves it long enough conscription too. Right now we're in the equivalent of the appeasement years of the 30s. Cutting budgets that should be raised, tokenism, and ignoring the problem.
• turk73 7y ago
  Neither is collectivism.