Why does it seem like climate change is only getting worse?
Why do the institutions, organizations, and countries that can have the greatest impact only pay lip service to combatting climate change?
Why is that even regular everyday people who aren’t skeptics seem apathetic to the prospects of positively reversing climate change?
Capitalism.
Profit motive > anything & everything
Until the many are able to unite against the few, things are only moving in one direction.
Getting people to understand that countries and cultures that are completely identified with capitalism are not going to change positively because the changes required to change would require a temporary loss in profits in large amounts for large quantities of current beneficiaries of the capitalist system.
And we know how we human can justify doing the wrong thing if it benefits us. Every human being has done it at some point in their life. An action either on purpose or on accident that negatively impacts another person or thing. But we believe we’re a good person, we didn’t mean it, we deserve better, etc.
Just scale that up to that of communities, countries, civilizations and corporations.
An aspect of human nature that works in our favor on tackling climate change is the inner drive humans have to help each other. You see it all the time when disaster strikes. There are always helpers. People helping people.
There is no benefit to losing faith in humanity. There are enough of us who want to help each other on a mass scale by helping the planet. There are enough people on the wrong side of capitalist policies to unite and drive change forward. That is where my hope lays.
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