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Let's look at it from a different angle: climate change situation creates lots of massive business opportunities that are very appealing and actively being take
by 8jef 4y ago
Let's look at it from a different angle: climate change situation creates lots of massive business opportunities that are very appealing and actively being taken avantage of, as we speak. While we argue, oil and plastics people get richer and politic is flooded with oil money (our money, from filling our own tanks). Economic AND climate migrants (causes for migration are often intertwined and should be seen as single) are being taken advantage of instead of receiving help where they are, and lots of people are getting rich from that. Then, when sea level rising gets critical, 90% of Earth coastal population will need relocation, and that service will make others rich. These (and others) creates formidable opposing forces to any organized and collective up to bottom type adaptation, which can never be without general consent. Pandemic made sure of that by eroding most trust that remained toward the ruling class worldwide.
We actually live in a world monopolized by the _us against them_ mantra that has for the most part deliberately chosen free market individual solutions to widespread dangers that concern everyone. Because climate change vilain is the guy looking in the mirror and not recognizing himself, while blaming the wallpaper. Commonly political solutions failed in commies countries, and we have not figured out yet how to organized ourselves as a planet since then, other than through free money flow that ruins everything.
While the prevailing ideological landscape leaves us no hope, other than to organize ourselves and end up living in some Mad Max dystopian tyranny, we have to trust and hope for the better. Who knows, maybe we'll grab the olive branch before falling into the abyss.
- kubanczyk 4y agoHighlighting this, it doesn't get nearly enough attention: > how to organize ourselves as a planet