“The doctor says I have 6 months to live if I don’t change my lifestyle, but I’ve heard they’re targeting 2-10 years from now for developing a panacea that can allow me to keep doing exactly what I’m doing, so I’m just gonna ignore the doctor.”
That’s what people sound like to me when they put faith in distant climate change action goals that are way too late for the projections scientists are providing, while the status quo continues to wreck the ecosystem more. People need to internalize the reality that the environment is already being impacted by it and there’s no magic “sci-fi will get us through” solution coming down the pike that is going to keep the mechanisms of mass ecological destruction moving while not destroying the ecosystem; it’s those mechanisms that need dismantling first and foremost. There is so so much waste and destruction that isn’t even necessary to sustain the degree of consumption in actual quantity. Like all the stuff that gets thrown out by the buyer because planned obsolescence or thrown out by the seller when it’s brand new and functional because they produced excess and heaven forbid somebody who needs it gets it and brings down the sale value of the product a single cent. And that’s not even getting into the climate impact from stuff like dropping tons and tons of bombs.
“The doctor says I have 6 months to live if I don’t change my lifestyle, but I’ve heard they’re targeting 2-10 years from now for developing a panacea that can allow me to keep doing exactly what I’m doing, so I’m just gonna ignore the doctor.”
That’s what people sound like to me when they put faith in distant climate change action goals that are way too late for the projections scientists are providing, while the status quo continues to wreck the ecosystem more. People need to internalize the reality that the environment is already being impacted by it and there’s no magic “sci-fi will get us through” solution coming down the pike that is going to keep the mechanisms of mass ecological destruction moving while not destroying the ecosystem; it’s those mechanisms that need dismantling first and foremost. There is so so much waste and destruction that isn’t even necessary to sustain the degree of consumption in actual quantity. Like all the stuff that gets thrown out by the buyer because planned obsolescence or thrown out by the seller when it’s brand new and functional because they produced excess and heaven forbid somebody who needs it gets it and brings down the sale value of the product a single cent. And that’s not even getting into the climate impact from stuff like dropping tons and tons of bombs.