Imagine how bad it would have been without La Nina.
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There is something that bugs me on that new tech.
Yes itâs needed, and I am not against it, but itâs also feels the wrong way round. It doesnât address the core problem of farm run off, it only clears up the mess.
Itâs like having a pup shit in your living room. You clean it up but you still need to sort the main problem of the pup crapping on your living room floor.
You can extend this argument to all climate and environmental issues. Personally, I suspect weâre already too late on certain things and will need more if this kind of thing but it feels so backwards.
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The problem is that you need people to make wholesale changes to their lifestyles. And that ainât going to happen.
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Iâve been battling that question in my peanut mind.
People wont change, I agree but I also feel tecnological advancement in things such as power generation has its place.
What I havent fully got my head around is the environmental cost of that advancement versus the benefit.
Exactly right.
People are inherently selfish.
We all make all the right noises and perform various day to day practices to do our bit, but taking it that step further at the cost of being inconvenienced or out of pocket isnât going to happen.
All while making the right noises in condemnation of others
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I think heâs not entirely wrong though, I once had an argument with a former friend of mine who claimed to be an environmentalist but thought nothing about buying random Chinese plastic junk, or flying from Central Europe to London for a couple of hours, just to fly back, having flown there from London just a couple of days before.
Arguing to me that she hadnât flown for most of her life so she deserves to do it.
But, these people are the [a] problem because they enable criticism like that to exist, furthering the whole fallacy of âaha but you live in a societyâ.
EDIT: See strikethrough and correction
I remember that (or a very similar argument) being put forward against using government money to improve home insulation. I actually did the data analysis on it and it didnât hold true. Apparently, cheaper heating bills doesnât encourage people to roast themselves alive.
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I agrĂ©e that plenty of people do it. But that doesnât mean that everyone does.
And then you get the reductio ad absurdum from those who say that anyone who claims to be green shouldnât be using electricity or whatever.
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You do see it in things like rural electrification all the time. As I recall, Jevons was talking about English coal use in the 18C and 19C
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Oh, not just myself then?
No, I agree with you. That was the point of my last paragraph, but I accidentally used the definite article. Editing it now.
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I read about it in the context of LED lighting, and how the efficiency gains just led to use of more lighting.
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Yeah I understand exactly the good point you are making.
What I took from the article, and why it impressed me so, was that these young graduates, are just foot soldiers, in the massive army of innovators that are needed to make a combined difference in the world.
In our own individual, special and mindful way that we should all be making steps to march in the right direction, has to hopefully, at some future point, make some sort of positive difference.
Highlighting the article in here, was just as a show of appreciation and spread their endeavours to dateâŠ
Cant argue at all with that point.
Yes, well done to them. We can allow @cynicaloldgit to crucify those that have created the problem in the first place, along with my spelling, typing ability and grammar
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Whilst this article focuses mainly on the super rich, this is sadly one area of modern life where the trickle down theory does apply. The brainwashing of the masses by the neoliberal agenda means that the type of vacuous overconsumption described in this article is considered âaspirationalâ by many people.
Although those at the top overconsume the most, we are all guilty of it to some degree.
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Good luck getting them to reduce their output.
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Never has an article been so apt to figure in this thread as the following one:
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No different to so many others.
Say one thing, actually do very little
We are fucked!
Iâm very sad to say that Iâm glad I donât have kids. Itâs bad enough fearing for everyone elseâs.
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