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Given that the majority of these seem to be occurring outside of the West (even thought the West is obviously directly involved in the corporate hand shaking th
by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Given that the majority of these seem to be occurring outside of the West (even thought the West is obviously directly involved in the corporate hand shaking that drives these murders), what should we do?
I think Western countries should definitely be enacting much heavier environmental protection laws, including ones that affect overseas territories (ie being able to link a Western exec to a corrupt forestry deal in Brazil = life in prison).
But the truth is that Western governments are already corrupt, we've allowed billionaires to hoard wealth, wages have stagnated, political lobbying aka bribing is considered normal (esp in America).
And the above is all only possible because the general population doesn't rise up to protest these issues, why does everyone just simply not care? Obviously as animals we're mostly concerned with what directly affects our tribe (big or small) but these issues do affect us, especially environmental ones.
Is it overstimulation, modern life is so much more complex especially with technology in the mix? Is it resource contention, ie people would prefer their power bill to be $10 cheaper even if it causes a global temperature rise over decades? Is our ability to be social animals lacking, having evolved to only participate in tribes of 150~ (as far as I've read) people, we can't all work together efficiently because of that?