You are right about cutting consumption in every respect but it isn't going to happen. I did it 20 years ago and it brought me to destitution. The only way people in the US are going to change is for a complete collapse or catastrophe from climate change. They won't give up the Walmart cardboard cookies let alone their Hummer.
Bidens 'green plan" is going to be the final nail in the worlds coffin. Going all electric will be a catastrophe but we won't make it to that point. Energy consumption has increased, fossil fuel consumption has increased, and that's with the solar and wind power that's been added. And the grid is already under capacity without the addition of EVs and the rest of the electric devices he wants to add.
Voting for a third party will accomplish absolutely nothing. Even if someone with actual brains were elected nothing would change and you know as well as I why. Unless you can walk to the polls to vote don't bother. It's a waste of fossil fuel. The living on "Happy thoughts and rainbows" days are over. Reality is about to take over and it's not going to be pleasant. Thank the greedy narcissist psycho paths in control.
I hear where you're coming from, but I think Peter Kalmus put it well when he says "Don't lose hope--but don't have false hope." It means (to me) to be a realist, but not to be so suicidal that you don't fight for what you know in your heart is the right thing to do. We know it's right to start taking climate action now and not ten years from now. It's right to cut back as best you can on burning fossil fuels, but there's only so much one person can do. There are about 71 corporations, the US military, and the 1% who are doing the most burning of fossil fuels and outright dumping of toxins into our environment. I've seen estimates that these three groups alone are responsible for anywhere from 50% to 75%+ of the problems we're facing. As a realist, this mean we need to shut these three groups down ASAP. However they're shut down--through electoral means or through sheer brute force or shaming them into nonexistence--we have to do so. Taking this project on as your mission in life gives you a reason to wake up in the morning and not contemplate your hopelessness now, doesn't it? As Peter says, "The hour is late...Our children deserve our best efforts."
"When all hope is lost, stubbornness remains" Toma
That's my motto. How ever, the American people have the ability to make the changes from the bottom immediately and forcefully from the bottom. That's true democracy. Boycott all the major corporations today and shut down the money flow to the elite. Instant gratification. Not tomorrow or next week. Achievable and effective. They shouldn't have to be told. They should see it for themselves. Voting will accomplish nothing but waiting another 4 years for another hopeful. But they are all heading to Walmart or target today to buy more useless junk.
I'm in Hawaii. The skies have been blue, the winds calm, and the seas calm for the last week and we are being told that a hurricane was the cause of the wildfires that wiped out an entire island. 36 people dead. The people in this country will believe anything the media tells them. The locals who have a brain think the fires were started by a directed energy weapon. I'm inclined to believe that and Im a skeptic in such matters.
You are right about cutting consumption in every respect but it isn't going to happen. I did it 20 years ago and it brought me to destitution. The only way people in the US are going to change is for a complete collapse or catastrophe from climate change. They won't give up the Walmart cardboard cookies let alone their Hummer.
Bidens 'green plan" is going to be the final nail in the worlds coffin. Going all electric will be a catastrophe but we won't make it to that point. Energy consumption has increased, fossil fuel consumption has increased, and that's with the solar and wind power that's been added. And the grid is already under capacity without the addition of EVs and the rest of the electric devices he wants to add.
Voting for a third party will accomplish absolutely nothing. Even if someone with actual brains were elected nothing would change and you know as well as I why. Unless you can walk to the polls to vote don't bother. It's a waste of fossil fuel. The living on "Happy thoughts and rainbows" days are over. Reality is about to take over and it's not going to be pleasant. Thank the greedy narcissist psycho paths in control.
I hear where you're coming from, but I think Peter Kalmus put it well when he says "Don't lose hope--but don't have false hope." It means (to me) to be a realist, but not to be so suicidal that you don't fight for what you know in your heart is the right thing to do. We know it's right to start taking climate action now and not ten years from now. It's right to cut back as best you can on burning fossil fuels, but there's only so much one person can do. There are about 71 corporations, the US military, and the 1% who are doing the most burning of fossil fuels and outright dumping of toxins into our environment. I've seen estimates that these three groups alone are responsible for anywhere from 50% to 75%+ of the problems we're facing. As a realist, this mean we need to shut these three groups down ASAP. However they're shut down--through electoral means or through sheer brute force or shaming them into nonexistence--we have to do so. Taking this project on as your mission in life gives you a reason to wake up in the morning and not contemplate your hopelessness now, doesn't it? As Peter says, "The hour is late...Our children deserve our best efforts."
"When all hope is lost, stubbornness remains" Toma
That's my motto. How ever, the American people have the ability to make the changes from the bottom immediately and forcefully from the bottom. That's true democracy. Boycott all the major corporations today and shut down the money flow to the elite. Instant gratification. Not tomorrow or next week. Achievable and effective. They shouldn't have to be told. They should see it for themselves. Voting will accomplish nothing but waiting another 4 years for another hopeful. But they are all heading to Walmart or target today to buy more useless junk.
I'm in Hawaii. The skies have been blue, the winds calm, and the seas calm for the last week and we are being told that a hurricane was the cause of the wildfires that wiped out an entire island. 36 people dead. The people in this country will believe anything the media tells them. The locals who have a brain think the fires were started by a directed energy weapon. I'm inclined to believe that and Im a skeptic in such matters.