A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from below and the sides.
I see this approach to the problem much like telling developing nations they can’t join modern society. The point is correct, more contribution to resource use and pollution is just making things worse. But is just cutting off those who haven’t yet “joined” going to help, or even an answer? The real solutions are much harder, complex, and deeper to discuss, so going for the easy ones is natural. Don’t have kids. Don’t eat meat. Don’t drive cars. Don’t use modern tech. Vote for some other guy. All have their nuances of being the right direction, but are so absolute that it just turns into an argument with no winners, and we still do the things.
I had never owned a car in my life until a year ago (I’m gen-X) when I got an EV. It is either plugged into my solar array, or at work (where they make the world’s biggest electric vehicles)
I eat local food, I eat what’s seasonable, and I’m lucky enough to live in a civilised country with good standards of animal welfare as the norm
I go out of my way to consume as little as I can
So I don’t just talk the talk, it’s how I live my life
And if I despise the people who know that they can be better, but pretend that it’s all too hard and embrace futility while getting something delivered by Amazon and ordering uber eats because they’re lazy and selfish
I see this approach to the problem much like telling developing nations they can’t join modern society. The point is correct, more contribution to resource use and pollution is just making things worse. But is just cutting off those who haven’t yet “joined” going to help, or even an answer? The real solutions are much harder, complex, and deeper to discuss, so going for the easy ones is natural. Don’t have kids. Don’t eat meat. Don’t drive cars. Don’t use modern tech. Vote for some other guy. All have their nuances of being the right direction, but are so absolute that it just turns into an argument with no winners, and we still do the things.
That’s the point
Some of us don’t
I had never owned a car in my life until a year ago (I’m gen-X) when I got an EV. It is either plugged into my solar array, or at work (where they make the world’s biggest electric vehicles)
I eat local food, I eat what’s seasonable, and I’m lucky enough to live in a civilised country with good standards of animal welfare as the norm
I go out of my way to consume as little as I can
So I don’t just talk the talk, it’s how I live my life
And if I despise the people who know that they can be better, but pretend that it’s all too hard and embrace futility while getting something delivered by Amazon and ordering uber eats because they’re lazy and selfish
And it’s great that some like you can live like that knowing you’re the ideal. “We” means society as a whole has to change.