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What can we, people, do? Most of us don't have reliable politicians who care enough to do something about it. We can only do so much with recycling, using better mode of transportation. Its mostly corporations, and they're too powerful and they don't care. I feel so hopeless. 11 comments
Elections and money drive democracies. That's how the change happens.  @joaocosta @lightsong @luckytran In the United States voting green at the federal level os utterly pointless but in primaries and local elections sure @lightsong @luckytran either help the reliable politicians you do have or become a reliable politician yourself. Join a progressive, climate focused political party or pressure group and get involved. @lightsong @luckytran buy local and eat in season; Sometimes it's not about learning. Not everyone has a yard to grow their own food. And not everyone has enough time to cook. Also if they don't have money, they'll be subsidized by the government until everyone tires and gets back to the convenience they provide. If need be, it will be illegal to grow your own food or fix your own stuff. It'll also take more time than we have on our hands before it's too late. That's why I don't believe this is a viable solution. @superlime @lightsong @luckytran @lightsong @luckytran The unfortunate thing about humans is the tenaciousness with which they adhere to a given paradigm or belief system. People become so invested in their belief framework, that they will deny contrary evidence, even when it becomes overwhelming. Psychologists refer to this as cognitive immunization, a mental block that we put in place to deny anything that contradicts our world view, despite conflicting evidence. We, the people, can start by taking responsibility. We can stop eating meat, which contributes more than transportation to global warming. Many of us, from the people, can consider remote work as a criteria when choosing our jobs, mostly because the dirtiest of all SUVs emits nothing when parked in the garage. BTW, we the people managed perfectly well to get around with much smaller cars before we "had" to start buying guzzling SUVs in droves. We can vote and we can vote with our wallets.
@lightsong @luckytran look to indigenous wisdom. There's a reason that 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity is protected by indigenous nations, and it's not because they're too stupid to industrialize. They may not have been technologically advanced, but so many of their cultural values have sustainability baked in because they watched and learned the patterns of nature and passed down that knowledge to avoid precisely this kind of apocalypse. There's a lot we can learn from them |
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@lightsong @luckytran Well, our simple actions against climate change can't change anything that much if the big corporations that digging us into the hole of despair won't stop. I feel hopeless too even if I'm a environment activist and vegan...