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The problem is that currently, the people in power to change things won’t really be affected by global warming - they have enough money to buy their way out of
by Nextgrid 4y ago
The problem is that currently, the people in power to change things won’t really be affected by global warming - they have enough money to buy their way out of it.
In a couple generations the problem will be critical enough that buying your way out of it will no longer be possible, and then we’ll see change.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoRight, and the mechanism that will bring that about will be enough of the poorer classes being affected that they start to make the status quo less profitable. Inconvenient resource wars, rioting in the streets, maybe even some old fashioned eco terrorism. All of that could be accelerated if people felt strongly enough to demand change sooner and were willing to make sacrifices in order to force the issue, but they generally aren't and those at the top put effort into keeping it that way.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI think that rioting and eco-terrorism can be kept at bay with increased surveillance. My bet is that the protests can be quashed long enough until the situation becomes so bad that actual life-threatening consequences arise even for those in power (extreme food scarcity and the breakdown of every supply chain out there).
- starkd 4y agoPeople have to live in that environment. They are busy raising children, getting an education, living life. Most people don't live life sacrificing themselves to someone else's cause. Be very careful of falling into someone else's narrative.
- germinalphrase 4y ago“ In a couple generations the problem will be critical enough that buying your way out of it will no longer be possible, and then we’ll see change” So what is that line? The inability to maintain high quality food production? Modern manufacturing? Mass migration?
- guerrilla 4y ago> The problem is that currently, the people in power to change things won’t really be affected by global warming - they have enough money to buy their way out of it. No, this assumes that civilization won't collapse. Their money means nothing if industrial society breaks down due to the catastrophic consequences of climate change. States are what enforce property rights and states fall apart as soon as the food runs out.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI don't believe it'll collapse in these people's lifetimes though. It'll take another couple generations for that to become an existential threat.
- guerrilla 4y agoAre the Heat Dome, massive floods in Germany and 50C in May in India not enough to make an induction that things have a pretty reasonable chance of getting a lot worse a lot faster than that?