It really gets me that life was plenty nice and convenient in the 70’s when I was young with there being very little plastic. I really wish we could go back to that.
That, but without the leaded gasoline, CFCs and that era’s pesticides please
yeah we don’t need to do the bad things just recognize that plastic everything has not really made things better.
We could easily do that, btw
Even looking at per capita carbon emissions, the 70’s were the peak for the US, Canada, UK, and Continental Europe.
We’ve made huge gains in efficiency in the past 50 years.
I like describing the 70s as convenient, because to me it reads as “convenient enough.” I just visited a recently renovated library and noticed curbside pickup spots (as in they run the books out while you sit in your car.) Outside of the disabled, do we really need that?
I’ve been wondering to what degree we’re addicted to convenience, and what the right amount might be.
I think something being convenient is not bad though. Like what you mention either uses staff already working for the day or encourages hiring more and it frees up an aggregate of time among people to be useful if they are busy. That being said part of the fun of the library is exploring it.
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You turn up. In person. You show the ability to interfere with political fundraising. You work to turn out voters on your side. You areange boycotts and other measures.
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Why won’t you show up?
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Nah, somebody said that you gotta show up, you said it’ll never happen, and I’m asking why you won’t show up.
It happens when you start making it happen.
It’s labour day long weekend where I’m at. If it’s a long weekend for you there’s probably something happening that you could get involved in, lending your skills or just emotional support.
Like I just got roped into an action when I’d much rather be staying at home, but you’ll never know what’s happening until you put yourself out there.
A global climate crisis is coming that I can’t do anything about, but I can do my part to build local resilience so the people I know have a better chance of surviving in one piece.
I do my part for the environment. Separating my garbage into trash, recyclable, or composting. Try to keep the speed down to conserve fuel, etc. I even returned some cans to today to get the deposit back ($38!).
It is always in the back of my mind that billionaires take private jets everywhere. Nothing I can do will overcome that.
Yet I still persist knowing I don’t have to be perfect to still help the environment.
You can do that and also light their private jets on fire.
Yes. We need a moratorium on all animal agriculture
political pressure and bold collective action
as that doesn’t really exist, it has to start. To start it, it requires individual action, including individual sacrifices. There is no secret vanguard lurking, waiting, to “do actions” while everyone else acts the same as before.
It is also essential to understand what changes look like down to the individual, to you, otherwise there’s a risk that the needed systemic changes will be rejected by collectives. We already can see widely popular science denying populism.
