Yes here we are, because people 20 years ago complained that this should have been solved during the oil crisis and did not proceed to actually change it in their time.
“They never did what was necessary, so why should I?”
“They aren’t doing anything right now, so why should I?”
“I’m not going to personally experience it, so why should I do anything about it?”
“I probably won’t personally experience it, so why should I do anything about it?”
“Doing something is ‘too hard’, ‘too expensive’, or ‘too something’, so I’m not going to do it!”
“Doing something is immoral or unethical in my personal belief system, so I’m not going to do it!”
Add it all up and it’s basically impossible to get anything done without powerful (and rich?) ideologues. The challenge, which democracy was supposed to solve, is how to put those people in place without bloodshed.
Which should have begun 20 years ago, but here we are.
Yes here we are, because people 20 years ago complained that this should have been solved during the oil crisis and did not proceed to actually change it in their time.
Humans are basically useless.
“They never did what was necessary, so why should I?”
“They aren’t doing anything right now, so why should I?”
“I’m not going to personally experience it, so why should I do anything about it?”
“I probably won’t personally experience it, so why should I do anything about it?”
“Doing something is ‘too hard’, ‘too expensive’, or ‘too something’, so I’m not going to do it!”
“Doing something is immoral or unethical in my personal belief system, so I’m not going to do it!”
Add it all up and it’s basically impossible to get anything done without powerful (and rich?) ideologues. The challenge, which democracy was supposed to solve, is how to put those people in place without bloodshed.
You forgot “doesn’t matter anyway, xyz is soo much worse”.
We had to find all those WMDs first so we could enjoy our freedom fries. It was worth it.
I am referring to the 1973 oil crisis and not Iraq. As in a big event, which really hurt fossil fuels, which was in this case 50 years ago. So no freedom fries and WMDs.