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Honestly we are way past the point of any scientific reasoning. The public has voted that they are uninterested, and the US government and large corporations are about to be uninterested too.
To be blunt… No one ever really cared, but the world kinda squeaked by putting scientists in front of statesmen and public broadcasts. Everyone kinda nodded along, and not just for global warming.
That period is over.
No one ever really cared
That's just not true. The problem is that the people who care were never the kind of people who'd come into power in our society.
There could be more options to choose from if we enacted electoral reform and gave voters the freedom to vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
We'd also need campaign finance reform (revoke Citizen's United for 1), get rid of insider trading, net neutrality, etc. which would all benefit each other and benefit from electoral reform
A few people cared, fewer did anything about it. Most were more concerned with mass production of cheap shit.
Got a heat pump to replace the gas boiler, bike instead of car and replaced the concrete paved garden with what will hopefully become a wildflower meadow with shrubs on the edges. You can actually just stop buying a lot of the stuff that is causing these problems.
The issue was never the average person. Corporations have always been the issue. Even if everyone on the planet tried to live as green as possible, the corporations would still cause too much damage for us to undo. The only way the average person could have made an impact was by attacking the corporations and their means of polluting the planet. That meant sabotaging their facilities. But the climate change movement was too focused on peaceful protest, and there has been evidence that points the blame for this on the corporations once again. For everyone, the issue wasn't that they weren't willing to live green enough (which is true that most people just didn't bother, but it isn't what caused the issue of climate change in the first place and wouldn't have been the answer either), it was that they weren't willing to risk their life and privileges to dismantle the system that caused it. The threat of climate change was not imminent or tangible enough for people to take real action.
God people like you make it sound so easy and then I tried it to find it's actually even easier.
I know! Its so easy its great! Plus its generally cheaper too, so I don't have to work very hard and I still have enough money. God damn life is easy.
Your actions you promote taking care only possible by those who own houses and have the means and funds to cover the replacements.
I understand you will say the wildflowers is basically free but it takes time that you have a privilege of having.If that's where you set the positive actions that people can take most will not be able to achieve them and view you poorly for bragging about it.
No actually the people are interested and the megacorps still destroys the planet because they have no soul they worship only profit
Then why are so few people engaged?
Do you know? I don't understand why I should know? I think many people are also so I don't get the premise
Because most people aren't actually interested
I have never doubted that almost everyone is interested in continuing the human race longer than 2 more generations, so I have not looked at the science. Everyone I talk to is interested at least so I don't get it
People say they're moving to avoid climate change and them move to where climate change is going to hit the hardest. What people say and what people do are often very different.
Did you change your premise from not many are interested, to not many are activists?
No
They cannot survive without buyers. People as a statistical whole do not care when we're talking about entire populations
No, that is not true
Dayum. Well said. Though some people cared. We, the few, and Al Gore, for example. The great majority, no. It does appear that period is over, I agree. Perhaps this is how it has been for the last 4-5 decades. Maybe this hope's death will be the last in our history.
:’(
It's ok, some life will survive, but the human pests will be eradicated.