There is a difference between not caring about it and still wanting to hold your living standard… We would need to sacrifice a significant amount of living standard to stop it right now, most people support doing something, but not that.
With how its going we will at best soften the impact a little.
There’s a lie in there, but it’s one you’ve been told. We wouldn’t necessarily need to sacrifice anything. Our standard of living could remain roughly the same, as long as a certain small percentage of the population saw their standard of living dramatically decrease to something resembling our own.
This is true for a lot of things, but I don’t think it holds for climate change. The people you’re talking about gain money by selling products and services to the common people, who want them for one reason or another. As long as those products and services exist, who owns them doesn’t contribute much to climate change. For example even if Amazon became a worker co-op tomorrow I don’t see how there’d be a fundamental effect on their contribution to climate change.
I don’t think many people have good understanding of what living standard even actually means, which in turn causes fear and anxiety when they are told it would drop. And I think it is much overexaggerated how much this drop would actually affect daily life for majorty of the people around the world.
There is a difference between not caring about it and still wanting to hold your living standard… We would need to sacrifice a significant amount of living standard to stop it right now, most people support doing something, but not that.
With how its going we will at best soften the impact a little.
There’s a lie in there, but it’s one you’ve been told. We wouldn’t necessarily need to sacrifice anything. Our standard of living could remain roughly the same, as long as a certain small percentage of the population saw their standard of living dramatically decrease to something resembling our own.
This is true for a lot of things, but I don’t think it holds for climate change. The people you’re talking about gain money by selling products and services to the common people, who want them for one reason or another. As long as those products and services exist, who owns them doesn’t contribute much to climate change. For example even if Amazon became a worker co-op tomorrow I don’t see how there’d be a fundamental effect on their contribution to climate change.
I don’t think many people have good understanding of what living standard even actually means, which in turn causes fear and anxiety when they are told it would drop. And I think it is much overexaggerated how much this drop would actually affect daily life for majorty of the people around the world.
Yeaaahh, see, our living standard is going to drop because of climate change anyway. If we act sooner we get more choices about how and who suffers.
I prefer a handful of billionaires “suffer” now instead of literally billions of poor people in a couple of decades… That’s a choice we could make.
Not a vote winner, obvs. So we’ll just continue to sleepwalk into the unknown.