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‘We’ can’t address climate change because the global elite are dependent on the profits from harming the environment to fill their money banks, and it turns out they have all the power.
I do not need to rewire my brain, I need to build power structure so that I can eat the rich w/ that donut
Do you not believe that in a functioning democracy, such as some found in europe, you could simply vote to address climate change?
I live in Germany. People here could easily vote to “eat the rich” and to reduce emissions. But they don’t, and they won’t. Voluntarily.
In the usa we did vote for AL gore, who campaigned pretty much solely on stopping climate change.
When it became clear gore would win, the Supreme Court stopped counting ballots and gave the win to Bush, an oil tycoon who went to war for oil. Later Kavanaugh, who worked the case for Bush, was given a lifetime appointment to the same court for their effective cronyism
So yes, the global elite are the reason here.
When saying “global elite”, are you refering specifically to the USA elite?
The global elite buy the USA politicians. They are for sale internationally
In Bush’s case, the family is owned by the Saudis. And the Saudis couldn’t have the USA president going after oil.
Right? You could use this argument for why all delayed gratification is essentially impossible (but also something people regularly do), or why it’s impossible to stop murder or other illegal activity. Some sort of police force would just be impossible in an ancap world after all…
Our failure to act isn’t just short-sightedness; it’s willful ignorance. This may be the result of another flaw in human wiring: We tend to assume the future will look a lot like the present, so even if the present is slightly worse than the past, it’s hard for us to imagine things could get even worse still.
Well obviously the people in this bloomberg piece have to talk to the nyt piece’s scientist.
“This is not a science problem; it’s a political problem,” Dessler said in an interview. “If we don’t solve it, it’s because we chose not to solve it, not because we didn’t have the solution.”
Ah. They’ve read that report. They’ve read it and realize that what might be done is not going to be done unless we install lawmakers who force solutions down our collective throats.
