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My reasoning is that it's actually backwards. So this is a systemic issue, where the people actually impacting the problem are at the top of compagnies, govern

by dmbche 3y ago

My reasoning is that it's actually backwards. So this is a systemic issue, where the people actually impacting the problem are at the top of compagnies, governement and international regulators. That's where any change can happen - any individual change has an effect that is either non perceptible ("setting an example for others" is impossible to measure) or measurably negligible (making your footprint smaller). So things like recycling or running the AC less have nothing to do with the problem or the solution - we need to affect the system itself, and to do that we have to go through companies, governement and international regulation. Issue is that virtually no one is trying to do that. Few people try to impact local governement, fewer national or international entities. I think this is because the "energy" needed to think and find a way to have an impact is drained into all the individual action stuff. Like a pressure cooker - individual action is the valve letting of enough steam so that nothing happens. Remove the valve - what happens?

jacquesm 3y ago
You make a good point. What really irks me is that our so-called captains of industry are cynically extracting wealth from this system at rates that are indecent while at the same time externalizing all of the problems first on the 'regular people' and then on a larger scale on the developing part of the world, who are utterly without a chance at dealing with this. Big industry is one of the major root causes of all of this and even if individual choice is a factor I'm pretty sure that if just 500 people would stop lining their pockets for a couple of decades and instead really took our global interests to heart that we might be able to put a dent in this. But as it is I'm not very hopeful that that will ever happen. In fact they'll probably use the crisis to further increase the wealth gap.

by dmbche 3y ago

jacquesm 3y ago

You make a good point. What really irks me is that our so-called captains of industry are cynically extracting wealth from this system at rates that are indecent while at the same time externalizing all of the problems first on the 'regular people' and then on a larger scale on the developing part of the world, who are utterly without a chance at dealing with this. Big industry is one of the major root causes of all of this and even if individual choice is a factor I'm pretty sure that if just 500 people would stop lining their pockets for a couple of decades and instead really took our global interests to heart that we might be able to put a dent in this. But as it is I'm not very hopeful that that will ever happen. In fact they'll probably use the crisis to further increase the wealth gap.