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This analogy is too hopeful for a couple reasons. First, the swerve is made to seem like a decisive action that is taken once and then is never repeated. In pra
by syrrim 4y ago
This analogy is too hopeful for a couple reasons. First, the swerve is made to seem like a decisive action that is taken once and then is never repeated. In practice, if people don't like that we've slowed the bus, they can speed it right back up again. Second, the one's blocking the swerve are supposed to "first class passengers", which seemingly stand in for the rich and powerful. In practice, its many of the least well off who are against decisive action to stop climate change, which they perceive as being especially harmful to themselves. If all it took was one person rushing to the front of the bus and yanking on the steering wheel, then it likely would have happened by now.
- jacquesm 4y agoFunny, I read 'first class passengers' as 'those in the rich and developed countries who are for the most part responsible for climate change due to their excessive carbon footprint'.
- sbierwagen 4y agoIf you define "rich and developed" as NATO+Japan then that's more than a billion people. Forcing that many people to reduce CO2 emissions to third world standards wouldn't require a "yank of the steering wheel", it would need nuclear war.
- actionfromafar 4y agoSo, you are saying there is still hope?
- shepherdjerred 4y agoAre you saying nuclear war is preferable to climate change? What exactly is your definition of good? It sure isn’t the well-being of humanity or the planet.
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- imtringued 4y agoHe is asking if psychology is the only blocker.
- ncmncm 4y agoYou imagine poor people in position to make choices that affect their future. But it is the billionaires who make those choices and impose them.
- presentation 4y agoDeveloping countries that want to become wealthy don't want to handicap themselves because of the problems that rich countries created.
- ncmncm 4y agoDeveloping countries can start out with cheap renewables instead of buying expensive old stuff that also costs more to operate.