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I like Cory, and I think he's right. But he's preaching to the choir. No one who can get hold of the wheel is listening.
by themadturk 4y ago
I like Cory, and I think he's right. But he's preaching to the choir. No one who can get hold of the wheel is listening.
- swayvil 4y agoPreaching to the choir pays his rent. The other options are sucking oligarchs, amusing children, selling off your body parts, living in a cardboard box and the vast frontier of crime.
- jamiek88 4y agoThe only thing stopping me being a very successful criminal since the world went to shit and leaders started getting away with heinous obvious shit is the thought that my parents would be very disappointed. if we are doomed anyway I might as well have my time on a yacht too.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoSame here except the reason is "vengeance may be visited upon my children". I also think my subconscious moral compass would declare war upon my conscious self.
- jacquesm 4y agoTechnically, we all fractionally have hold of that steering wheel, but the decisions made in the boardrooms and the houses of parliament (assuming democracy, not always a given) will easily counteract the effects of private individuals deciding for themselves. It's actually really simple: this level of comfort is not sustainable without a major re-tooling of the way we interact with the eco-system, and if we don't adapt we will be adapted, quite likely by 'downsizing'.
- wrnr 4y agoThe is wrong on so many levels, in most places be it country or company the bus is being steered towards what is thought to result in global carbon reduction. This is a classic example of a moth and bailey argument, if only we had the same confidence about what to do about climate change as the fact of climate change. According to this article it is as if we only need to elect the right people and then those shall do the right thing.
- hgomersall 4y agoWe know what to do about climate change - stop emitting greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide and methane. Any strategy that doesn't address that on the scale that is required can be immediately dismissed as noise. That leaves relatively few options, and those are well enumerated. Probably we need to do all of them.
- wrnr 4y agoYea but HOW? Do you think there is some cheap pareto improvement to be had here. For god sake, the article is advocating for hurting and killing people and then complaining about a lack of political consensus.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe article isn't advocating for that, the article is merely observing that this is unavoidable.
- ElectricalUnion 4y ago> the article is advocating for hurting and killing people The alternative of not hurting and killing people is everyone suffers and dies, not a significant improvement.
- mistermann 4y ago> Any strategy that doesn't address that on the scale that is required can be immediately dismissed as noise. What about strategies designed to set the stage for that, but do not define it as a direct goal?
- dredmorbius 4y agoAs Doctorow spent a substantial part of his essay saying: time. We had decades to act decades ago. The stage has been set. It's not set very advantageously. We need to act. With significant effect. Now.
- fulafel 4y agoIt's rallying the troops and articulating the issues. Most of the readers are not yet doing much but can be encouraged to, there is a lot we can do by getting off our butts to convince the rest of the people (activism, lobbying, moving the political Overton window etc).
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoIf you get hold of the wheel, and you try to slow down the party bus, you'll get eaten alive.
- int_19h 4y ago> can get hold of the wheel Only if you insist on legal means of doing so.