Honestly thank you for sharing this. I watch this and Kuzgezart’s video about the topic whenever I feel way too depressed about shit like this nowadays.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw&feature=share9
Video by Kuzgezart that has similar viewpoints and a LOT more data than BritMonkey’s, but the biggest thing is they show we actually are on track to avoid the biggest apocalyptic scenario (which would be a 4C+ temperature increase). Yes, it’s going to suck ass, real ass, but we won’t all die. And hell, if by then to now we managed to avoid 4C to 3C, which is what most scientists are predicting, maybe by 10 years more we’re at 2C.
foolish of you to think that is a bad thing.
There is no greater hell than immortality.
I guess a discussion on shared meaning of what it means to die would be needed to understand if not dying as possible future/current/previous state in the universe and directly address your request to change your mind.
Reject doomerism, embrace fatalism
Actually, I did hear about CFCs being successfully replaced and the ozone hole closing. The reason that happened was that CFCs were replaced with something almost identical, manufactured by the exact same companies.
With fossil fuels, there is no straightforward direct replacement. They have to be replaced with something completely different, not merely slightly different, and the companies that make them will go out of business if such a change is implemented. Needless to say, they’d sooner kill every last one of us than allow that to happen, and so far, they’re on track to succeed in their destroy-all-humans plan.
Doom stops when people have hope. Teaching people how to climb to a solar punk future is the solution.
We need solar punk political candidates.
Not only representative politics. We need to focus on grassroots initiatives as well.
Both is good
You’d be surprised how easy it is. Many political parties will allow anyone to run for a seat if no one else is already doing it. A lot of the smaller parties will even actively seek out good candidates.
There’s vetting of course, but so long as you’re not a terrible person and haven’t said anything publicly that’s opposed to the party’s platform, it’s really not too hard.
The hard part is when it comes to the larger parties that have established (often terrible) candidates. The party knows them, so you have to put in the time to get known as well and then run against the sitting candidate when the time comes.
It does happen though. AOC in the US is a great example. She unseated a democrat that the party actually liked, and she did it with an army of new members she got signed up.
How you run varies a lot by country.
In the US, you start by filing papers to do it. Typically a combination of a fee and collecting signatures. Municipal government tends to have a lot of power over things like what commute mode is favored and local building codes, so I recommend it for first-time candidates. You’ll need to raise enough money to help get the word out, spend a lot of time visiting community groups and talking with people, and ideally recruit a few volunteers to help you win a primary.
