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Well that's easy to imagine because the root cause is so deeply rooted and complex, and stopping it would be literally a Herculean effort across billions of peo
by sofixa 3y ago
Well that's easy to imagine because the root cause is so deeply rooted and complex, and stopping it would be literally a Herculean effort across billions of people in hundred+ countries, many of which would have to work against their own primal surface-level interests (e.g. good luck convincing poorer or even affluent countries reliant on oil exports that they should decarbonise and coordinate efforts with other countries to decarbonise, even if you directly give them the money to allow them to decarbonise which nobody is going to do).
- J_Shelby_J 3y agoThis narrative bothers me because it removes the personal responsibility from people who are… responsible. Like, we can’t tell people they can’t do anything to fix it and so they shouldn’t feel bad for continuing life as normal… and then be surprised when they don’t change their behavior. Guess what, you should feel bad. History and your descendants will judge the hell out of you. Billions will die and your small part, while certainly not the cause, will still be pinned to you for your acquiescence to it being “too hard” to change. Now, if everyone in the developed world got this message suddenly change isn’t so hard.