Yeah it sucks but what are you gonna do? I have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. All I hear is that people are driving too much and eating too many burgers, and look, I could cancel that trip to Cancun and skip the one week I get away from the grind every year, but everyone else is still going so it's not like what I do is going to make a big difference either way. I ordered that impossible burger at a BK the other day, even. The kids are pretty bright - hey, look, Timmy got an A in freakin' calculus last semester - they'll figure something out, and I'll be dust by then anyways the way my heart's been going.
True facts, and I think the main reason for the West's complete failure of imagination around addressing climate change through policy. We had a whole unit on nudge theory in a policy class that I took because anything more involved than redesigning a form is A u T h O r I t A r I a N i S m. It's to the point where the Heritage Foundation's own idea for carbon markets is now considered a lefty pipe dream.
"Authoritarianism" is such a bizarre, brain rotting cliche. Bedtime? Authoritarianism. Changing your nappies? Authoritarianism! Forcing people at gun-point to not destroy the world and all life upon it? Red fash tankie evil gommunism authoritarianism!:?!>?!!!!!!#@4hyg u89-ip1rhj9-23ehf214
Ironic because it's the climate crisis that undid my fear of communism in the first place.
"Wait, so everyone is tacitly okay with pollution but nazism came back as a totally grassroots movement? Ok, maybe authoritarianism isn't so bad after all...."
Almost like you can’t expect individuals to solve systemic problems 🤔
True facts, and I think the main reason for the West's complete failure of imagination around addressing climate change through policy. We had a whole unit on nudge theory in a policy class that I took because anything more involved than redesigning a form is A u T h O r I t A r I a N i S m. It's to the point where the Heritage Foundation's own idea for carbon markets is now considered a lefty pipe dream.
"Authoritarianism" is such a bizarre, brain rotting cliche. Bedtime? Authoritarianism. Changing your nappies? Authoritarianism! Forcing people at gun-point to not destroy the world and all life upon it? Red fash tankie evil gommunism authoritarianism!:?!>?!!!!!!#@4hyg u89-ip1rhj9-23ehf214
Ironic because it's the climate crisis that undid my fear of communism in the first place.
"Wait, so everyone is tacitly okay with pollution but nazism came back as a totally grassroots movement? Ok, maybe authoritarianism isn't so bad after all...."