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We have already normalized that governments can't properly manage threats like the current pandemic even when they are part of our present. What do we expect fo
by slx26 5y ago
We have already normalized that governments can't properly manage threats like the current pandemic even when they are part of our present. What do we expect for stuff like global warming that doesn't even have the same level of immediacy? Governments, our best bet towards coordination, have abundantly demonstrated their inability to handle these situations. Science can't push harder than economy. They all provide facts, but those of subsistence are always more immediate and have much more weight.
Whether we keep complaining or remain positive and hopeful it's all the same, just learned helplessness. I don't want to incite madness, but the only true coordinators for humanity seem to be fear, disaster and death. You can only get people to run in the same direction if they are running away from something. We aren't feeling the heat enough yet.
We have to find better ways than "regulation" to convert long-term threats into immediate threats. Human rationality does not exist at scale. Adjust reality to compensate the bias or face the consequences.
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