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This is true as individuals, but importantly as a society we have far more agency than sometimes it feels like when you watch us all acting out our own individu
by mindwok 1y ago
This is true as individuals, but importantly as a society we have far more agency than sometimes it feels like when you watch us all acting out our own individual self-destruction.
Banning CFCs, making seatbelts a legal requirement, making drink driving illegal, gun control (in countries outside the USA), regulations on school canteens. These are all examples of coordination where we've solved problems further upstream so that individuals don't have to fight against their own greedy, self-serving, short-sighted nature.
We do have the ability to fix this stuff, it's just messy.
- thrown-0825 1y agoIf you don’t think societies can be greedy, self serving, and short sighted I don’t know what to say. We have raped this planet into a coma and our children will have to scrape together whatever remains when we are done.