• dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    So to my understanding, once more the talk has to be focused on sustaining the money flow, not sustaining the environment.

    Yes and this is unsurprising. Before, but definitely since COVID, we know there is a substantial portion of humanity, that just can’t be convinced or motivated to engage in collective preventative action, especially if it means sacrificing now for a delayed, uncertain reward to the community and no guaranteed personal gain.

    That means, the best we can do is “symptomatic treatment”, which costs money and won’t solve the root cause.

    That’s one aspect of humans, where it becomes evident we are actually still animals and are not really ready to be a supra-planetary species.

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      5 months ago

      we know there is a substantial portion of humanity, that just can’t be convinced or motivated to engage in collective preventative action

      That’s one aspect of humans

      I can’t disagree more. Especially during COVID, you could see that most of the people unwilling to wear a mask belonged to a certain political group, and watched certain media that told them to act in such a way. I could bring you the opposite example with China, where the regulations worked extremely well and people didn’t do this bullshit. It’s not a human trait, it’s just a certain ideology promoting selfishness.