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Come on, dystopians. How about some education and trusting people to act as grown-ups? (Disclaimer - I live in Sweden)
by fifilura 3y ago
Come on, dystopians.
How about some education and trusting people to act as grown-ups?
(Disclaimer - I live in Sweden)
- scrollaway 3y agoYeah I don't think surveillance is the way. Greatly increased fines and making police actually care about catching people would be a good start.
- fifilura 3y agoThe only way (in any endeavour really) to truly achieve success is to get people on your side. Make them realize they live in a beautiful city and that they are a part of it. May take some time, maybe even decades of barely measurable results. But i believe it is the only method that works in the long run.
- ethanbond 3y agoWhat do you propose? Do you think people aren't currently told that littering is bad and then simply trusted (like adults) not to do it?
- jrvarela56 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE
- jmopp 3y agoThe average person is reasonable and could probably be trusted to do the right thing. It's the 50% below average whom I'm worried about. You'll probably find a Pareto-like distribution on littering, i.e. ~80% of the litter is produced by ~20% of the people.
- yodsanklai 3y agoAnother example that comes to mind is graffitis. My city is full of them. It takes seconds to make one, and hours to remove it. A few dozens of people could make a lot of damage within a few months.
- fifilura 3y agoWhich is why it is not analoguous to litter.
- fifilura 3y agoThat is just one model. Another model is thinking of people as a part of a herd. If noone around you dumps garbage in the river, you are less likely to do it yourself. You just need to create that positive spiral.