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Originally Posted by washoe
The bolded is common sense to me, which I am doing anyways and I think most people are. The problem I am having is that it only gets worse. I.e. everyone is ordering from amazon, which means more air and road traffic. Imagine 1.366 Billion Indians doing this in a couple years, and 1.398 Billion Chinese ( I just looked up both numbers)
Which technologies, is a good question, but it looks like India and China are going the coal route and then Im seeing difficulties. So yeah, however I look at it its a problem, a problem we can only put a dent in if we focus on more imprtant things first.
My priority list would be something like this. But it seems they want to put those priorities upside down.
-Corpoarate Cartels
-Afghanistan
-Syria
-Northkorea
-Cuba
-Mexico
-China
-Africa
-India
-Covid
-Climate Change
Priority lists tend to be emotional, triggered by something direct and dramatic. It's hard to get people to be worried about that seems far off and which creeps by so slowly that even if its effects are well underway, it has gone gradually enough to make it seem seem natural.
But a casket from Afghanistan, the harrowing account of victims being tortured to death by cartels or the tax percentage on your payslip is going to strike harder for most of us than a climatologist's graph, regardless of the enormous and ongoing suffering it shows.
There were recent threads here dedicated to the trolley problem, trying to make the trolley problem predictable by political ideology. The problem is of course, the trolley problem was real it would probably look something like this:
1.) 20% of people arguing that trolley construction makes the problem impossible.
2.) 10% of people busy blaming the trolley driver on social media.
3.) 5% of people arguing that the trolley driver is part of a conspiracy.
4.) 30% of people who don't really care.
5.) 15% of people arguing that both sides are equally bad.
6.) 5% of people arguing that people lying down on train tracks get what they deserve.
7.) 5% of people arguing that trolleys work just fine, we need to live with the accidents and stop installing buttons everywhere.
8.) 10% argue amongst themselves about whether the problem is too few fences or too few buttons.
Add to that a lot of people busy arguing that if their guy was in charge, the problem would not exist.
That doesn't mean the issue wouldn't be solved, merely that the road to a solution tends to be messy and confusing.