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Disaster is nearing. Mass displacement. Mass starvation. Mass death. It is all imminent. Do you understand?
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Drop everything and do what exactly
Block ambulances and throw stuff at paintings.
For a start you could get active in local politics and support zoning reform. Car dependent infrastructure is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and I am not just talking about car exhaust.
If we want to solve climate change we need to change our way of life, and that means ditching as many cars as possible.
I don't disagree with you, having walkable infrastructure would be great.
It just doesn't really seem achievable in any meaningful way.
A few hundred km from here a gargantuan hydrogen facility is being built - using solar to cracking hydrogen from sea water. It will take decades to build, and is a big undertaking.
I offer the above as an example of something difficult but reasonably achievable.
Lobbying local government to favour walkable infrastructure just doesn't seem like a viable pathway to meaningful change in a reasonable time horizon.
Yes I should take 15 minutes every election cycle to vote for the right person. Beyond that though my input wouldn't be very valuable.
The Netherlands went from car dependent nightmare to cycle capital of the world in a generation. Meaningful change takes time but it is possible in our life times and it isn't going to happen on it's own.
Voting is good, talk to your friends. Be that annoying person who won't shut the fuck up about how annoying cars are, change peoples minds or at least plant the idea in their brain that we can exist without cars.
Apathy solves nothing.
The netherlands still have a terrible CO2 bilance, which shows that we have to think much bigger than that.
On the local space have a focus on the climate impact preperation. This might very well safe many lifes in your city/town/village. For the climate change reduction think national and international.
I'm pretty sure the only way to solve this is by an extension of politics though another means. Are you ready?
I'm not sure I'm ready no, but this is a problem that can and has been solved through less dramatic means.
I would like to hear some encouraging examples for the has part of "can and has". (Bearing in mind the chart from this post)
It seems to me that market forces are in charge of us, and I don't believe we're going to escape the death spiral we're in. I would of course love to be wrong.
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LSD, K, and maybe some MDMA. At least thats what i would like to do.
You can have all the Ketamine. Please pass some LSD and MDMA this way
Molotovs?
TBH this is the answer. If govs are willing to sell themselves and all legislature to the highest bidder, then it's time for mass protests, strikes, and molotovs.
that could have changed the trajectory 50 years ago
if people had been scientifically literate and recognized the problem
it's too late now
this will happen when the pain of reality (regular temperatures in the 100s) overcomes the stupidity of religion, but there won't be any going back
Gov isn’t seeking itself to highest bidder though, at least not in the west. We have MASSIVELY reduced our carbon emissions and it’s gets better every year. We can decarbonise. We are decarbonising.
The problem is partly that the west has emitted an epic fuckton already.
And the problem is that Asia (and to some degree the Middle East, but mostly Asia) is going Hold My Beer™️ on our emissions and rapidly emitting as much as, or more than, the average westerner is doing.
See for yourself.
The world is burning, start more fires!
Great idea.
It's already on fire. Might as well make sure the right places burn.