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Jokes aside… I’m starting to get a bit desperate and despair with this shit. The world is literally on fire (with all the forest fires etc), oceans are boiling, ice caps and glaciers are melting and causing deadly waves and mudslides and everyone is just going about their business, shrugging things off and buying another iphone.
I’ve sold my car, I use bicycle or public trans, I spend quite a lot of time figuring out which products to buy to be sustainable, my electricity contract has 100% renewables, mostly hydro, I havent bought new clothes in like a decade (and I don’t want to), etc etc… But when I talk to anyone I know about this shit, they just go “oh yeah its horrible, someone should do something about this. Anyway, I just booked a holiday, its 8000km away and we’ll be using a cool jumbo jet to get there!”
Raaaahhh.
Sorry, rant over.
This is not a problem individuals can solve at home
Yeah thats sort of what I was complaining about. We, as a group, don’t care enough to take collective action. I’m doing my thing, I’m not doing it because I think I’m going to save the world, I’m doing it because I think its the right thing. I’m not under the illusion that me or my friends can change the world. The point I was making (very badly), was that they are not interested in doing even the minimum, so theres absolutely no hope for getting any bigger changes done.
I’m kinda similar. I think it helps because you need to show people what a greener world would actually look like. The train is less intimidating if a coworker can answer all your questions.
We can get rid of all the data centers and everyday life would be pretty much the same. With cars it’s another story, and the average person has less imagination than you’re imagining.
Hmm, yes, good point, about showing and answering questions.
When I was 15 to 28ish, I was the guy who was into cars, went everywhere with a car, heck, I had like 7 cars at one point. Now that I’m not that guy anymore, I find myself answering questions about getting rid of all the cars and stopping driving. A few people have gone “huh, I guess its not that bad” when I tell them how easy it is to go from spot A to B with a bus. I guess its a sort of “lead by example” kind of thing.
Heating, cooling, and manufacturing represent a much bigger piece of the pie. I bike instead of drive when I can, but figuring out how to boost efficiency with heating and cooling will be a much bigger change if you are a home owner. Solar, geothermal, heat exchanger, improved insulation, etc. Its also something any homeowner can do with out relying on society to improve its own infrastructure.
excuse me but, while the US torpedoed an Iranian oil tanker in the strait of Hormuz I was able to recycle 17 aluminum cans.
The jets are bad but miniscule compared to cruise ships that wander in a week long circle and go nowhere.
It is very hard to live with.
Not all problems are solvable (this one is technically solvable but politically, it isn’t) and we need to accept whatever outcomes there are, despite our best efforts.
Yeah I think thats the most infuriating thing about all this, it could be solved but because cunts are in charge, it won’t be.
Yeah. And the reason they’re in charge is because we don’t have the requisite social consciousness / organisation / structure to put better people there. Changing culture and political systems takes a long time, which we don’t have.
Many people will just throw up their hands and walk away but for me the only way I can accept what will happen is if I did my best (minus my handicaps, like living under capitalism, personal issues, etc etc) to stop it.
Are you vegetarian/vegan?
Frogs, meet boil.
