Remove leaders and see if it makes a difference. I can barely get pil to stop using paper towels and buying everything laces in plastic. If you can’t change an incredibly tiny thing. No chance you’ll get the whole planet to put the planet first. Worlds fucked. Unless we are able to change reality itself. End of humanity.
This is why every time someone mentions climate tipping points, I try to make the argument that the only tipping point that matters happened circa 1980.
That is when Reagan (government is the problem, not the solution) and Thatcher (there is no such thing as society, only the individual) came to power and started aggressively dismantling those public institutions and programs that were necessary to keeping intact the people’s power over the corporation. The program they and their cohort started has continued unabated for 40 years.
Never forget that every business, large or small, traded on a stock exchange or not, is organized as a totalitarian dictatorship, with power and wealth accruing to those at the top and their favoured few. Allowing that mentality into the halls of government has been, unsurprisingly, a destructive force, not a constructive, protective, or restorative one.
But maybe, maybe - tiny maybe - they act if they get told at COP29. Or COP30. Or COP31. Or a later COP.
Remove leaders and see if it makes a difference. I can barely get pil to stop using paper towels and buying everything laces in plastic. If you can’t change an incredibly tiny thing. No chance you’ll get the whole planet to put the planet first. Worlds fucked. Unless we are able to change reality itself. End of humanity.
Maybe try again in a few billion years.
This is why every time someone mentions climate tipping points, I try to make the argument that the only tipping point that matters happened circa 1980.
That is when Reagan (government is the problem, not the solution) and Thatcher (there is no such thing as society, only the individual) came to power and started aggressively dismantling those public institutions and programs that were necessary to keeping intact the people’s power over the corporation. The program they and their cohort started has continued unabated for 40 years.
Never forget that every business, large or small, traded on a stock exchange or not, is organized as a totalitarian dictatorship, with power and wealth accruing to those at the top and their favoured few. Allowing that mentality into the halls of government has been, unsurprisingly, a destructive force, not a constructive, protective, or restorative one.
You aren’t wrong