We build a way of life based on greed and fear, the twin engines of capitalism, and then innocently wonder why things keep blowing up.
The frantic search for a hair of the dog cure to climate change is only further proof of the depth of the addiction. It may even work for a brief while. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~~ Albert Einstein The immediate problem of climate change isn't rising sea levels - it's mass unrest, political upheaval and the inevitable dawn of authoritarian regimes and bloody revolutions. It's absolutely certain that Humanity will go mad before it perishes. If you don't think it's possible, look around, chances are it's already at your doorstep, but called something else. The recent Sterlite protests in Tamil nadu that killed a dozen (?) people is due to climate change, and more importantly consumerism driven pollution. The bad actor isn't the polluting factory, it's the consumer demand driven by anxiety inducing advertising, and a hollow way of life that is sustained by materialism. You can have a a good life or cheap goods, pick one It's trivial to solve climate change with current technology and know how - I mean really - just give up this way of life. Not just plastic bags, but give up the whole thing - not overnight, but in a planned fashion it can be executed with no new tech required. Take a page out of the Amish playbook, and climate change can be solved. It's unrealistic of course, because the people won't allow it, and more importantly the corporations and governments won't allow it either.honest truth - We who dare to change the world can't dare to change the human. We don't have to wait for the eventual takeover by AI or aliens, it's already here. The fiscalized world, the idea that constant growth is good is the ideology of the cancer cell. What's good for the economy isn't good for the human, as evidenced by the obesity epidemic, the depression and stress epidemic, and many other euphemistically named life style diseases. Is it progress of I can order pizza at 3am on my smart phone, get my resulting clogged artery replaced with a smart stent and work six days a week to pay for it? We need to zoom out and look at all the things going wrong because we choose to live in greed (I'd have said "choose to live in sin", and I'd be accurate, since greed is one of the seven cardinal sins, but that would be too biblical, but then again what we are facing is an Armageddon, so... )
