Yeah, sounds about right. People: "You need to stop worrying these things you're making yourself upset!" Me, screaming, waving a gun around: "Have you considered that if you did worry about these things we could fix these problems and then I wouldn't need to be upset?"
It's not a question of popular consciousness, but one of the needs of capital to grow and grow faster - effective climate change legislation hurts profits and competivity in the medium term, so the ruling political forces of the Pro-Bourgeois political forces are reluctant to do it and even reformist ones suffer from the same pressure.
It's be like a company suddenly deciding to raise wages for all its employees. Sure, it might bring some clients from socially conscious Socdems, but it also lowers the profit margins per employee - basically, it's madness from a capitalist's point of view.
Even a capitalist state led by say radlibs or greens would be uncomfortable with "going too far" - like there were slogans from the neoliberal wing of the Green Party "Between economy and the environment there's no need for an or" (Cem Özdemir, I think) and even the reforms that are done are with the promise that the ecological transformation will bring prosperity and profits to firms.
Yeah, sounds about right. People: "You need to stop worrying these things you're making yourself upset!" Me, screaming, waving a gun around: "Have you considered that if you did worry about these things we could fix these problems and then I wouldn't need to be upset?"
It's not a question of popular consciousness, but one of the needs of capital to grow and grow faster - effective climate change legislation hurts profits and competivity in the medium term, so the ruling political forces of the Pro-Bourgeois political forces are reluctant to do it and even reformist ones suffer from the same pressure.
It's be like a company suddenly deciding to raise wages for all its employees. Sure, it might bring some clients from socially conscious Socdems, but it also lowers the profit margins per employee - basically, it's madness from a capitalist's point of view.
Even a capitalist state led by say radlibs or greens would be uncomfortable with "going too far" - like there were slogans from the neoliberal wing of the Green Party "Between economy and the environment there's no need for an or" (Cem Özdemir, I think) and even the reforms that are done are with the promise that the ecological transformation will bring prosperity and profits to firms.