by dohboi » Mon 24 Jul 2017, 23:49:40
Yes, it's a struggle.
But it's also just complicated.
And people tend to think if you aren't either on the side of immediate, total and utter destruction on the one side, or hunky-dory everything's gonna be just great on the other, you are involved in some kind of contradiction or denial.
Lots of really bad things are now locked in. But we could, probably/perhaps, avoid even worse outcomes with rapid reductions in resource use by the richest. You can also buy a lot of cooperation from the rest of the world with small improvements that don't really take terribly large numbers of resources, and that may ease a transition into a population de-growth.
But none of that is going to save us now from a bunch of really, really bad consequences, as far as I can see.
My motto these days is: Yes, we can do something. We can make a really, really bad situation even much much worse. And that is mostly what we are doing (especially now with current US leadership).
That also means that we could stop (or at least reduce the amount) that we are making things a whole lot worse than the catastrophes that are already baked in.
But that's a more complicated message than most can or want to process.