| ▲ | terespuwash 6 hours ago |
| A change in attitudes is not enough. Structural change is needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the population is unable to achieve results. |
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| ▲ | matthewdgreen 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The population is achieving results. Most of these results are occurring in China, which has begun an unimaginably huge deployment of renewables and nuclear. Europe is also making progress. The rest of Asia will go next, and then (as it develops industrially) so will Africa. Even parts of North America will quickly electrify: for example, Canada just agreed to reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% from 100%. |
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| ▲ | __MatrixMan__ 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Agreed. Our ecological goals are to make biosphere damage scarce, but our economic practices aim to make scarce things plentiful. We need something to balance out the effects of scarcity-based economics. |
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| ▲ | evolve2k 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | In the very fun board game ‘Evolution : Climate’ you “breed” animals designed to survive the climate conditions on the board. One strategy is to switch to breeding ‘carnivores’ that then can feast on the creations of other players. They downside tho is that once other players evolve their animals to have carnivore protections (fight back, scales, protective shells etc) the carnivores start to quickly starve and that player must quickly change out of this eat everything strategy back to a more sustainable strategy. In a similar way I think what works is to push back against growth only and growth at all costs approaches and back practises and models and communities that are working in other ways. | | |
| ▲ | __MatrixMan__ 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | The trouble is, when I receive my paycheck, it just comes as "dollars". I don't know whether my employer got them by providing services to communities which are working in other ways, or whether they come from more nefarious behavior--and I have no way to refuse one sort but accept the other. The kind of community action you're describing happens, but we need to find ways to help it scale. |
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| ▲ | hasanabi 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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