Tackling climate change - the extensive damage that greedy & corrupt humans brought upon us all - would require significant policies and laws to change everything humans do. Such change would have to be put into place by governments and every single person would have to abide by the changes.
Unfortunately, humans do not have the capacity to make such change on the scale required. Greed always wins out over sacrifice and change for the good of all. Humans still kill each other, individually and with war, for profit. The rich not only whine about paying their fair share of necessary societal costs but do everything possible to weasel out of doing so.
Look at our government- two people are allowed to bring everything to an absolute halt - one for her ego and the other for his greed and ego. No voting rights, child care credits, climate change policies. Why would anyone think humanity would ever work together to save the planet the richest countries have willingly and greedily destroyed?
Yeah I'm kind of at the same point w/r/t climate. It seems pretty clear that hitting the Paris temperature targets would require basically reworking the entire global economy from the ground up. And the will to do that simply doesn't exist -- in the U.S. we're having a hard enough time even with bare minimum measures like carbon taxes or better fuel efficiency.
Hi. I read an interesting article on Salon.com the other day that touches on what I tried to say in my comment. If interested, it is titled “America’s deepest and most dangerous divide isn’t between Democrats and Republicans”. It was written by Richard Eckersley and posted on 16 January 2022. (Bonus for Christopher - the author quotes a survey which likely had a graph or two.)
I realize my comment was negative. I base my take on humanity not pulling its head out of its collective 4th point of contact on many other examples of us not working together but the most recent is how our current pandemic relentlessly marches on due to humanity not working together for the collective good.
Sorry about that! I hit send and then realized I used a paratrooper term for the human .. bum. When in training to learn how to throw yourself out of a perfectly good airplane (as civilians always like to say) you learn to touch the ground and roll through 5 points of contact, counting from 5 backward. Although the thigh muscle is meant to be the 4th point, in the Army it became known as the bum because sergeants like to yell at people to pull their head out of the bums. So to speak. And I’m sure the training is different now. My time in jump school was a while ago.
Tackling climate change - the extensive damage that greedy & corrupt humans brought upon us all - would require significant policies and laws to change everything humans do. Such change would have to be put into place by governments and every single person would have to abide by the changes.
Unfortunately, humans do not have the capacity to make such change on the scale required. Greed always wins out over sacrifice and change for the good of all. Humans still kill each other, individually and with war, for profit. The rich not only whine about paying their fair share of necessary societal costs but do everything possible to weasel out of doing so.
Look at our government- two people are allowed to bring everything to an absolute halt - one for her ego and the other for his greed and ego. No voting rights, child care credits, climate change policies. Why would anyone think humanity would ever work together to save the planet the richest countries have willingly and greedily destroyed?
Yeah I'm kind of at the same point w/r/t climate. It seems pretty clear that hitting the Paris temperature targets would require basically reworking the entire global economy from the ground up. And the will to do that simply doesn't exist -- in the U.S. we're having a hard enough time even with bare minimum measures like carbon taxes or better fuel efficiency.
Hi. I read an interesting article on Salon.com the other day that touches on what I tried to say in my comment. If interested, it is titled “America’s deepest and most dangerous divide isn’t between Democrats and Republicans”. It was written by Richard Eckersley and posted on 16 January 2022. (Bonus for Christopher - the author quotes a survey which likely had a graph or two.)
I realize my comment was negative. I base my take on humanity not pulling its head out of its collective 4th point of contact on many other examples of us not working together but the most recent is how our current pandemic relentlessly marches on due to humanity not working together for the collective good.
Sorry about that! I hit send and then realized I used a paratrooper term for the human .. bum. When in training to learn how to throw yourself out of a perfectly good airplane (as civilians always like to say) you learn to touch the ground and roll through 5 points of contact, counting from 5 backward. Although the thigh muscle is meant to be the 4th point, in the Army it became known as the bum because sergeants like to yell at people to pull their head out of the bums. So to speak. And I’m sure the training is different now. My time in jump school was a while ago.