Humans are simply not organized to take care of long term issues. A system of nation states ensures a "tragedy of the commons" situation where everybody optimi

Humans are simply not organized to take care of long term issues. A system of nation states ensures a "tragedy of the commons" situation where everybody optimizes for their own short term interests. One failed climate summit after the other cements this reality. And this isn't just national selfishness, most nation states have existential short term issues to deal with. At the national level, assuming a democracy, politicians run in 4-5 year terms. Who will get the vote? The politician promising tax cuts or the one proposing unpopular climate measures that increase your cost of living? You know the answer. The current narrative that our leaders are too corrupt or incompetent is only half the story. The issue very much is part of all of us. When giving the choice to do the long term thing, we prefer the short term thing. We're wired that way. Just like we're wired to go for junk food. We should start thinking that way going forward: we're too flawed and limited to do what is right for us in the long term. And then work from there. The idea that there's good people and bad people and we just need to convince the bad people, is flawed. My "lived experience" is that people do not care. They don't care about nature. They don't care about other countries. They care only about what is right in front of them, and what is there right now. Everything else is abstract and unimportant. This too you can read as evil or narcissism, but it's just how our species are. As individuals, we're not designed to take on the burden of an entire planet. We're small scale social primates and think and acts as such. The very idea of a global community (and abstract thinking) is brand new. My point is to not wait for a moment where we all "turn good". The current inaction or indifference is our natural state. At a global level, people will never ever prioritize long term issues over short term issues, this behavioral change isn't coming.