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Strongly agree with you. A lot of the big problems, such as climate change, are things we stumbled upon as we advance as a society/economy/civilization. You ca
by goethes_kind 4y ago
Strongly agree with you. A lot of the big problems, such as climate change, are things we stumbled upon as we advance as a society/economy/civilization.
You cannot expect some random individual (say for example an exec at Shell) to take it upon himself to save the world. He would not be allowed to, if he tried.
This feeling of uneasiness that we are feeling is because social and political technology has not advanced enough to keep pace with the rapid advancement of our economy.
- mod 4y ago> You cannot expect some random individual (say for example an exec at Shell) to take it upon himself to save the world. He would not be allowed to, if he tried. Plus, the people are mad they're not saving the world, then making comments about how useless they'd be after the collapse, like little babies. One comment says billionaires can't iron a shirt. But right now, that helpless baby man should be working on saving the planet? My wealth is outsized compared to most of the planet. Actual non-wealthy people probably consider this entire discussion board a bunch of wealthy, evil baby men infighting and pointing fingers.
- philjohn 4y agoExcept in many cases they actively hid, and lobbied against, measures that would have helped. The big oil companies all had research showing what emissions would do - and they buried them, and lobbied governments for tax breaks, to gut public transit and more. All in the pursuit of "maximizing shareholder value". To try and paint the people prepping now because they know what's coming in a charitable light is somewhat odd ...