Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts too much.
‘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
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…
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
‘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
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…
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.