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I never get the argument that because we are not solving the entire problem at once we shouldn't make any step in the right direction. Changing mentalities is a
by lapink 7y ago
I never get the argument that because we are not solving the entire problem at once we shouldn't make any step in the right direction. Changing mentalities is a big deal. Eventually it can trickle down to our entire way of life and make for a smooth (r)evolution, with no one missing the old world.
- Flozzin 7y agoIt's easier to tear something down than to build something. This is why people write articles like this. They acknowledge the problem, claim to be on the 'correct' side of the issue and do nothing! It's not their fault all the options are bad. People like this continue the status quo while acting like they want to move to better solutions.
- hurricanetc 7y agoGood is the enemy of perfect. I see it all the time now in all ranges of things but especially in politics and climate change. People want to have their way and if they don't have their way they would prefer nothing at all.
- colechristensen 7y agoToken solutions that make people feel good but accomplish little or often make things worse distract attention and resources from real problems and significant problems.
- jamil7 7y agoGot any evidence to back that up? You’re implying that wasting less food is somehow either distracting or taking resources away from real problems. In my experience it’s the people doing nothing that are so quick to point fingers and find fault with every attempt at improving our situation.
- prepend 7y agoI think bikeshedding [0] is evidence. [0] https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-triviality-bikeshedding https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-t...
- colechristensen 7y agoPlastic straws is perfect. Politicians spending time advocating for, writing legislation, promoting, debating, and bragging about such things is all an enormous distraction which fools people into thinking something is being done and satisfies people would would have been disadvantaged. If politicians literally did nothing all day people would be upset and force action. Instead politicians do the absolute minimum to seem like they are doing something when they are not. The reason abortion, alternative identity/sexuality, the NEA, gun restrictions, extreme social benefit changes, etc dominate political attention is precisely because nothing of consequence will ever actually happen while people cheer for their cause and their team. Kicking stones when mountains need to be moved isn't progress and should be reviled instead of celebrated.
- jamil7 7y agoPlastic straws are a good example. I was asking more specifically about wasting less food though, at an individual basis I don't see how this can really be a bad or distracting thing.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoRecycling. All that effort to recycle and educate people about recycling and laws and bullshit, all to send it back in containers to China to be dumped in a landfill so that people wouldn’t feel like all their consumption was damaging. All of that energy and time could have been used to educate people about reducing their consumption of materials, energy, and space. But maybe that’s not what people want anyway.
- jamil7 7y agoFair enough but I'd argue thats a failure of the current recycling industry. My initial comment was related to food wastage, sorry if it wasn't clear.