Huge planetary problems were fixed in the past, yielding lessons for the current climate crisis — yet this time a solution is justice.
  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Headline is a good demonstration of why it’s so difficult to set up a keyword filter to get rid of the childishly vapid American politics from your feed lol

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The solution requires a new ideological paradigm, but transitioning into the right paradigm would be extremely difficult and it would likely take a very long time.

    I think the US is already in the process of transitioning to a new paradigm, away from neoliberalism, which was the dominant paradigm over the past half century or so, to something else. However, I’m not sure we are transitioning into the “right” paradigm. I think the paradigm we are transitioning into is more protectionist than neoliberalism. We are moving away from globalization and towards something more like the cold war era, where the world was divided along ideological lines into a “first world” and a “second world.” I expect the new paradigm we are shifting into to be more antagonistic toward “unfriendly” nations. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were to lead to some kind of major conflict.

    • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Of course we’re to that: the US is doing very little to slow climate change at all, is anything it is accelerating it. The natural result of this will not be food insecurity in the USA: it will be famine in South and Central America. Climate migration will see tens of millions of immigrants at our borders.

      And the government has 0 intention of helping them. It military will directly cause a mass casualty event at the border before the turn of the century.

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The hard part morally is whether future human rights trump present ones. But we can’t even get to those issues since they’re all trumped by maximum short term profits all the time.

  • wwaxen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s dumber than that. We could do it if we cared about long term profits rather than next-quarter profits.

  • Zrybew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The whole world: We need cheap EVs for the regular people.

    China: I got you fam.

    The world: Tarifs.

    • Guydht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’s a bit more complicated than that. You don’t want total reliance from one country (especially one as questionable as China) over a whole big ass sector of your economic. And China being super cheap will cause a monopoly of their EVs. That’s bad.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      And yet, we managed to mostly abolish slavery and child labour in most countries.

      It’s not going to be easy, but it can be done.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Humans are wonderful. Not always good, not always reasonable, but wonderful.

      We are rich, nuanced, vibrant beings. A small portion of us are detectors but by and large we are community focused and willing to give when we feel we are not being taken advantage of.

      Unless you think all your friends, yourself, and your family are garbage it is inconsistent to assume a random sampling of humans would not display the same prosocial traits you find in them.

      The one thing we are incapable of doing though is handling power.