I’m sure this will spur society to prioritise the future viability of our species survival and the state of the environment over short term quarterly profits right? … right?
most of australia’s recycling ends up in Indonesia being melted down and thus polluting the environment anyway.
The problem is, it’s already in our backyards. From record breaking forest fires, to record breaking heat, and record breaking droughts…
hey, but how far does your backyard go? Don’t you feel at least for your city, your country? Why not something bigger?
Most companies do not optimize to exist long term. Another, longer lasting, entity needs to take charge of this. Like humanity itself, except it needs some organization, reflecting legitimate consenus. The problem is that it needs to be enforcable, and world govenment with punitive powers is not an unproblematic idea.
I think one big problem is that Earth has become too small, but this fact and it’s implications did not quite get absorbed. People act on in instinctively by favoring space exploration, but it’s pursued by most adventurous ones, and not in unproblematic ways.
I, too, agree with the scientists that we’re all well and truly fucked.
I can feel it
the best things as an individual you can do to fight climate change:
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walk everywhere or catch public transport. Don’t drive.
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Go vegan
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Don’t have kids
I’m 18 and will never want kids for moral reasons, it’s cruel to bring children into a world that is doomed. If I were to want kids I’d adopt.
Just vote and protest.
No matter how much corporations and governments want us to believe that we’re at fault, our contribution to the problem is negligent in comparison with oil companies and huge manufacturers. You can’t tell someone not to have kids without even mentioning the real problem out there.
It’s sad how quick you’re being downvoted. The attitude online is such a defeatist, we can’t do anything vibe. Give them an enemy to blame and they’ll happily grumble about how powerless they are and how unfair it all is, tacitly giving themselves excuses not to change their own behaviours.
Having done a LOT of vegan activism over the years, there’s one thing that always sticks out. People don’t think they have any power to do anything about injustices. Not just animal injustices, but anything. At all. People will just roll over and take it up the arse pipe. Regardless how badly they’re being treated, and what is being done to them. People are so defeatist. It’s sad. as individuals, we have a lot of power when done collectively.
Actually the best things you can do are
1: join a climate lobbying group (I joined this non-partisan group : https://citizensclimatelobby.org/)
2: contact your congressperson and tell them you support carbon tax and dividend
3: contact your congressperson and tell them you support raising taxes to subsidize green investment and end fossil fuel subsidies
4: vote. Locally and federally and often. Here’s why local matters: https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/it-reminds-me-of-the-hunger-games-rural-residents-complain-about-solar-farm-where-cincinnati-buys-power
Any “you stuff” is way after the above in terms of efficacy.
