When things start getting bad enough that people in power at the moment are deeply affected, we’ll see an incentive to focus on immediate solutions that actually work. That’s when the window for drastic measures opens. For now, it’s just a waiting game. Vote for the least worst candidate, donate if you can, and do your best to explain the situation without freaking people out so much they won’t listen. Hopefully renewable energy wins that race, but as long as it hits the rich before we hit collapse, there’s a chance for drastic measures to occur and work.
Our economy currently operates in terms of quarterly gains. I don’t expect that to change. The system will continue to support short term mitigation over long term improvement until it literally collapses under its own weight. While regulation will hopefully continue to stifle the brunt of climate change, corporations will continue to do everything in their financial and other power to push forward their short term profits, at the expense of everything else.
I agree that voting and donating is the best course of action, but the snowball is already rolling down the hill, and those who have the power to stop it would much rather just slow it down if it means a bigger payout.
Those in power that are deeply affected are already seeking ways out. Mars colonization and private space travel is an important human goal, but as it is being funded now it’s a way for those in power to ensure that they, and their children, and those who can pay for it, don’t need to live here once everything goes tits up. Billionaires have contingencies as they keep pumping profit out of the earth. For us, like you said, it’s a waiting game.
The climate deniers profiting off this know this, but they think people are too stupid to understand what will happen.
When things start getting bad enough that people in power at the moment are deeply affected, we’ll see an incentive to focus on immediate solutions that actually work. That’s when the window for drastic measures opens. For now, it’s just a waiting game. Vote for the least worst candidate, donate if you can, and do your best to explain the situation without freaking people out so much they won’t listen. Hopefully renewable energy wins that race, but as long as it hits the rich before we hit collapse, there’s a chance for drastic measures to occur and work.
Our economy currently operates in terms of quarterly gains. I don’t expect that to change. The system will continue to support short term mitigation over long term improvement until it literally collapses under its own weight. While regulation will hopefully continue to stifle the brunt of climate change, corporations will continue to do everything in their financial and other power to push forward their short term profits, at the expense of everything else.
I agree that voting and donating is the best course of action, but the snowball is already rolling down the hill, and those who have the power to stop it would much rather just slow it down if it means a bigger payout.
Those in power that are deeply affected are already seeking ways out. Mars colonization and private space travel is an important human goal, but as it is being funded now it’s a way for those in power to ensure that they, and their children, and those who can pay for it, don’t need to live here once everything goes tits up. Billionaires have contingencies as they keep pumping profit out of the earth. For us, like you said, it’s a waiting game.
The climate deniers profiting off this know this, but they think people are too stupid to understand what will happen.
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