3 ms·
>But it's downright dishonest to say we don't care or do. If I exercise once a month and spend the other 29 days sitting around, is it dishonest to say I care
by minikites 5y ago
>But it's downright dishonest to say we don't care or do.
If I exercise once a month and spend the other 29 days sitting around, is it dishonest to say I care about physical fitness?
>The solutions left to be found are nowhere clear or easy.
They're very clear, they're just not easy, because they're unpopular, because they involve people being less greedy and selfish. We could tax pollution and punish polluters far more than we do now. We could take some of the unimaginable wealth away from billionaires and use that money to improve infrastructure and other parts of society to be more green. But we won't, because greed and selfishness are virtues of modern life and we believe that a single person should reap all of the benefits from the work of the thousands of people below them.
- umanwizard 5y agoIt’s also a tragedy of the commons problem. If one country does the right thing, it doesn’t stop everyone else from carrying on as usual. There are debates right now in Germany about how German steel producers could become uncompetitive internationally if stricter emissions requirements come into force as planned. I assume the same sort of debates crop up anywhere that makes any attempt to address climate change.