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The question of where liability should sit for our collective reliance on fossil fuels is interesting. One reckoning I want to see is with our collective delusi
by setgree 5y ago
The question of where liability should sit for our collective reliance on fossil fuels is interesting. One reckoning I want to see is with our collective delusion that plastics are fundamentally recyclable.
Frankly I think a “truth and reconciliation committee” solution is probably the best we can hope for. So many parts of western society profited from, and actively propagated, that myth, and we’d benefit from a full accounting of harms done.
- labster 5y agoSure, but few of us are ready for that. Almost everyone is still in the denial, anger, or bargaining phases — mostly denial. Only a handful of us have accepted that we are children of a dying planet. Reconciliation can’t happen until we acknowledge there is something to forgive.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoThis looks to me to be in the general category of proceeding funeral by funeral, as in change will only happen when... us older folk die. We seem to be in some sort of Nash Equilibrium.
- thatguy0900 5y agoIt's gonna take a lot of older folk. Being "green" is trendy but it's not really like younger generations are sewing their own clothes out of recycled materials. The only thing that will stop climate change is lucky geoengineering breakthroughs, no generation is willing to give anything up for it. I'm in my 20s,its easy to yell at boomers but I look at my friends throwing working phones away every year for a new one and know we wouldn't have done any better.