A very on point article by TheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair talking to almost half of all the IPCC scientists, asking them important questions.
The message is this: climate change will have a massive impact on so many ecosystems and overall on billions of people. Pretty much all scientists are pessimistic and realize that their work is in the end futile. They show us what is happening and why. But politicians are not giving a shit. Influenced by a fucked up society of trade and in the pockets of oil giants, they only have words and no actions.
But no one talks about trade, and how this society is based on trade and thus the situation at hand is predictable. Of course everyone cares about trading. Thus billionaires, thus inequality, thus waste and pollution, an
... Show more...A very on point article by TheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair talking to almost half of all the IPCC scientists, asking them important questions.
The message is this: climate change will have a massive impact on so many ecosystems and overall on billions of people. Pretty much all scientists are pessimistic and realize that their work is in the end futile. They show us what is happening and why. But politicians are not giving a shit. Influenced by a fucked up society of trade and in the pockets of oil giants, they only have words and no actions.
But no one talks about trade, and how this society is based on trade and thus the situation at hand is predictable. Of course everyone cares about trading. Thus billionaires, thus inequality, thus waste and pollution, and so forth.
Also no one talks about the fact that all of us are slaves to trade. How can you and I get involved about this matter when we all have to trade in order to survive!? What are these scientists expecting from ordinary people to do when they are all in chains in this system?
They slightly poke at "capitalism" but too little, too late.
How about banning ads? How about a Universal Basic Income to let us get involved and do something about this? People can't even afford to protest for-fucks-sake... How about some historians and anthropologists explain to everyone that we live in a society based on trade which evolved for the past 10.000 years and it is now obsolete and incentivizes us to be idiots and terrible. How about we talk about a different kind of system?
Too edgy!?
Sure....
Then let's continue to produce more reports so we know exactly how fucked up things are and will be. At the same time no solution will emerge.
Pathetic for an "intelligent" species.
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Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
Alessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
