The coronavirus pandemic showed us that global survival is possible with significantly lower CO2 emissions; that was an extreme case, of course, but finding a middle ground between that and the extreme we call “normal life” is absolutely feasible and achievable.
Make better policy. For the people, not the corporations. And if someone can’t manage that, then at least don’t be an a**hole—instead of working for the few. It’s that simple. (Politicians!)
And so, one cannot help but suspect that this is all intentional; as unbelievable as it may sound, the price is a good life for a select few, while the rest simply doesn’t matter. A thousand excuses: if I don’t do it, someone else will; I can’t save the world; I was just following orders, carrying out an assignment, or closing a deal. There are too many people anyway—who cares? Yet who lives long enough to actually benefit from it? No one (though that isn’t how far ahead any of them are thinking).
For the same reason that the parties in government aren’t the ones seriously implementing the best possible adaptations for the population: lobbying, lobbying, lobbying—and everyone has a price. Well, there you go.
Did sleepy Donni not have a good afternoon nap and is now grumpy, huh?
Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine, just for a moment, that we all simply stopped playing along globally—that the colorful paper money was no longer accepted anywhere, and people helped and provided for one another, while the super-rich and all the other drivers of right-wing parties were valued solely for their actual skills. Oh, what fun that would be. They would lose all their power in an instant. It’s utopian, sure—but I would have said the same thing about current global politics just a few years ago.
And guess what’s next for right-wing leaders :( (And yes, I see the irony regarding today’s politicians.)
Just for my synapses, currently fried under this heat dome, the question boils down to this: would I rather suffer a bit more for the sake of AI, or for the prospect that things might actually get better on this planet again? So, it’s a straight-up choice between selfishness and the collective good - and well, we know just how brilliantly those kinds of questions work out for our species :/
Weil Kapitalismus primär ein Verteilungs- und Anreizwerkzeug ist, kein Qualitätsgenerator. Allerdings sehen wir, wie das System beginnt sich selbst zu verdauen, wie es jedes noch so gut gemeinte System tut, sobald es einseitig bespielt wird und kippt.
Nicht mein Kanzler >:(
Epstein, Epstein, alles muss versteckt sein. Epstein, Epstein—everything has to be hidden, based on a german childrens rhyme.