There is only one person that got it right on this thread…
Before the big reveal though, a question?
Do you know why they keep saying ‘by 2050’ (earliest being 2030)?
Besides kicking the political can waaaaay down the road.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion….whoops, wrong intro….
I’ve met with political party leaders, MPs, MLAs, MPPs, corporate heads, captains of industry blah blah blah (Hi Greta
).
It didn’t change a thing. It’s due to the Pendulum Effect butt more on that later.
What is evident after a decade of advocating, bitching, cajoling, manipulating, encouraging and and outright door to door and face to face with climate change deniers and inaction is that it’s not a consumption or capitalist problem it’s psychological.
It’s all in the head, our lizard heads that is.
Our basic response to stress (survival) is Freeze, Fight or Flee.
To encourage behavioural change and overcome our basic survival instincts to deal with climate change we came up with…recycling
That’s all it was meant to do, change peoples behaviour.
Not to save the world.
It’s one of the worst things you can do. Recycle fossil fuel plastics.
The first R is reduce. Recycling increased consumption.
Hybrid and electric cars was the same thing. Change peoples behaviour over a generation.
Terrible outcome. EVs are not the solution.
Energy use reduction is the only proven action that has the biggest impact. Efficiency.
Now who gets the CC Darwinese award?
Don Lever
He is right.
Sit back and do nothing. Time to die (quoting Bladerunner again).
The old white privileged men of the historically most prosperous post war gen…Baby Boomers are incapable of changing. Flight, Freeze or Flee.
Blue box and maybe a more efficient vehicle but get them to ride a bike to work?!
I’m not a Boomer, I’m Gen X so I get the midline view on them and the Millennials.
Gen M ain’t behaving the same way as their parents or grandparents. They can’t afford to.
Freeze, Flight or Fight.
Between 2030-2050 the Boomers will go bye bye. A whole generation of consumers and inaction will be gone and the policy makers and power brokers with them.
Stand aside, die off, go extinct.
It’s not their fault. Behavioural change is hard.
Our survival instinct is ingrained in us. Freeze, Flight or Flee.*
*read up on PolyVagal Theory for a real deep dive into how our autonomic nervous system works (my former was a psychologist so I was privy to many mental health practices and effects).
So that’s aboot tit. Do nothing because you can’t anyways.
Just die off. OK Boomers?!
We can help and prepare for the next Gen political systems (my focus now) and technology to have a more efficient lifestyle (food grown in local hubs on buildings, using shit to power your building…digesters, bioengineering building materials like fungi, hemp etc).
History won’t be kind to DLs generation. All that power and money and not much changed.
That’s why I’m a Transitionist and not an Environmentalst.
The new paradigm won’t include me either
The new humans won’t be the old humans. Look to the past to predict the future (because our behaviour doesn’t really change).
Neanderthals (New Man) made way for us Homos and we will evolve into something else (New research shows Neanderthals dna actually exist in us so we absorbed them like the Borg).
Our salvation or evolution will include AI and we will become half computers in order to survive. Quantum everything!
The speculative (sci) fiction writers knew/know this
Sorry Doc, but your good book doesn’t account for this except maybe predicting the apocalypse which isn’t really a bad thing, it’s a necessary thing to get rid of those Boomers that might try to extend their lifespans
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