Based on the world's collective experiences during covid, I'm thoroughly convinced 4.15 billion of those people are actually wondering how they as individuals can work to make things worse.
40 years of neoliberalism sacrificed community to the altar of individualism. Everyone was brainwashed to think they don't live in a society and only themselves matter.
There are over 300 million Americans for one and pretty much each of those is a problem, polluting more than nearly any other country per capita. Plus they chose to elect the guy who promised untold wars.
Those "100 people" mostly run American (not all - some are European or Chinese or Saudi too) publicly traded companies owned mostly by pension funds and 401ks. So mostly it's Americans, older Americans in particular, benefitting from all that. Those people are there to take the flak so you don't realize that most people in wealthy companies are profiting off the destruction of the planet and everyone's way of life needs to change, which is why it can only be done by law. Ban air travel for one, or limit it to say 6 flights per person per year (including connection flights). Ban any fossil fuel powered transport, electric generation, fertiliser production and so on. And this needs to happen globally everywhere at once, otherwise whoever doesn't take part of the ban has an unfair advantage over everyone else.
One of the most powerful beliefs in modern politics isn't a policy.
It's the belief that nothing can change.
You hear it everywhere and I feel it too.
Most of us do.
But the strange thing is that when researchers study how change actually happens, they keep finding the opposite. Social change rarely arrives because everybody suddenly agrees.
It often begins with surprisingly small groups of people connected in the right ways, reaching a tipping point that makes what seemed impossible suddenly feel inevitable.
This is why we evolved to have social hierarchies. It allows social animals such as ourselves to organize and divide labor to achieve things that would otherwise be impossible for individuals. When people feel like their individual contributions towards a particular cause don't amount to anything then that's a good sign that the cause is lacking structure and leadership that would be necessary to mobilize people.
I, as a person with a recalcitrantly strong back and hatred of reading political treatrices am thankful that there is a worldly upper class to tell me what is good for me.
That's not kerosene, we're just heating up the chafing dishes, Massa.
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Based on the world's collective experiences during covid, I'm thoroughly convinced 4.15 billion of those people are actually wondering how they as individuals can work to make things worse.
40 years of neoliberalism sacrificed community to the altar of individualism. Everyone was brainwashed to think they don't live in a society and only themselves matter.
Okay nope.
Fuck that. There are like 100 people rolling the planet right now. Do not spread their bullshit onto the population.
There are over 300 million Americans for one and pretty much each of those is a problem, polluting more than nearly any other country per capita. Plus they chose to elect the guy who promised untold wars.
Those "100 people" mostly run American (not all - some are European or Chinese or Saudi too) publicly traded companies owned mostly by pension funds and 401ks. So mostly it's Americans, older Americans in particular, benefitting from all that. Those people are there to take the flak so you don't realize that most people in wealthy companies are profiting off the destruction of the planet and everyone's way of life needs to change, which is why it can only be done by law. Ban air travel for one, or limit it to say 6 flights per person per year (including connection flights). Ban any fossil fuel powered transport, electric generation, fertiliser production and so on. And this needs to happen globally everywhere at once, otherwise whoever doesn't take part of the ban has an unfair advantage over everyone else.
Here's a really good video by Barry's Economics on the topic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lgy337KiA
Thank you for sharing this. I will give it a watch
We still haven't overthrown our gov btw.
Well... to be fair... 8.3 billion people could pretty quickly eviscerate those 100 and fix the problem with a very brief bout of ultraviolence.
I like the way you think.
No drop off rain thinks it's to blame for the flood
This is why we evolved to have social hierarchies. It allows social animals such as ourselves to organize and divide labor to achieve things that would otherwise be impossible for individuals. When people feel like their individual contributions towards a particular cause don't amount to anything then that's a good sign that the cause is lacking structure and leadership that would be necessary to mobilize people.
I, as a person with a recalcitrantly strong back and hatred of reading political treatrices am thankful that there is a worldly upper class to tell me what is good for me.
That's not kerosene, we're just heating up the chafing dishes, Massa.
Unfortunately modern, especially Western societies are carefully designed to ensure the lowest possible chances of people working together.
Xiaomi Samsung would like their smartphones back.