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> Our past selves borrowed from our future selves but now we can’t figure out a way to kick the can down the road even if we wanted to.
There are going to be drastic changes needed; but I guess they will only happen when the "pain level" has increased a few more notches. The current runaway rate of new problems at least promises to deliver at some point.
It was strange to see how quickly changes were possible during the Covid pandemic. Governments can do what's needed, if the conditions are right. I'm ignoring the question of whether any particular government did the right thing--they all did something!
2023-05-16 · 1 year ago
the difference might be that the things governments did during the pandemic were far less unpalatable than climate change action
I find this theory of populism (or could we instead say nationalism) as a distration from class conflict to be very interesting. It seems to me that while there is definitely some truth to it, I don't think one can attribute working class support for a given party or issue to manipulation and persuation alone.
There is also an aspect in which the working class feels justified in opposing climate policies which negatively effect the. This is because people are not obligated to care very much about things beyond the scope of their lives, relative to their immediate economic wellbeing.
Now, it doesn't help that climate change is accociated with the upper class academics who are able to study it. You might say that this association comes as a result of oil company propaganda, but I think it exists in a very real form independantly.
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