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The defeatist mindsets expressed in these comments seem more like a way to shed any sort of personal accountability for participating in a solution that doesn't
by ericjmorey 4mo ago
The defeatist mindsets expressed in these comments seem more like a way to shed any sort of personal accountability for participating in a solution that doesn't kill billions of people than a reflection of reality.
There are many solutions.
- SoftTalker 4mo ago> There are many solutions. There are, but none that will be accepted. Will you give up your car, your air condititioning, your AI agents, your uber eats, your year-round fresh produce at the supermarket, meat as a regular part of your diet, all the imported stuff you are accustomed to having?
- cagey 4mo agoYou're right, I won't, and I'm probably not alone. So what's the endgame? A world government that enforces all of those "give-ups" at gunpoint?
- fmkamchatka 4mo agoAs a family: - We don’t use Uber Eats - We don’t fly - We bike in the city (long tail bikes to carry the kids) - We don’t use A/C (and resist so far installing it) and try to do some passive ventilation, shading to limit the house getting to hot in the summer (it’s gets sometimes around 42 C where we live) - We try to eat local food … And we are not sad!
- ck2 4mo agohere's a thought experiment but it's really more of a personality test of fantasy vs reality let's say they somehow make fusion happen next decade so with "unlimited" "free" power do you think there will be A - more peace B - more war To me it's pretty obvious. When I was a teenager I hoped for a Star Trek future But after the past decade especially, I realize that will never happen, that people will support suppressing and murdering thousands, millions of innocent people to feel a fake sense of satisfaction The same reason that fake religion persists is the same reason why the human made part of climate change will never be solved