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Working in a sector related to sustainability also, I can see scope for XR to have a positive impact, even if just raising awareness as (in my sector) consumer sentiment does also drive decision making toward sustainable practices.
You need many things from market intensives, strong voices and good policy makers. XR will have some influences on a few of those. Without them I'd imagine the news and politics would be all Brexit and Trump dominated (i've not read the news in years, can only guess).
edit: sorry missed a whole page of chat!
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consumer sentiment does also drive decision making toward sustainable practices.
This. The two approaches most likely to work are:
1) Scrap capitalism (snigger).
2) Find a way for business to make money out of doing the right thing. -
I have a lot of time for Greta, the school strikers, and for lots of other forms of protest/campaigning, for the reasons you give. I think XR goes too far, though.
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I think a lot of people have cared a lot about this issue for a long time and have worked hard to try to make a low carbon world possible. I know people who have dedicated their careers to solving these problems. They’ve done that within the confines of a capitalist system because that’s frankly the quickest way to get there. That graph above is hugely important because making renewables cost competitive removes the biggest barrier to their implementation. That’s the result of actual work that people have done to try to make the world a better place. Actual work, not perfomance theatre in a public space.
If XR succeeds in getting more wind arrays and solar farms and electricity storage facilities built; if they solve the problem of space heating without fossil fuels; if they
inspire huge energy efficiency measures across homes and commercial properties, then great. If they’re unwilling to build wind farms - like Dale Vince did - I would at least acknowledge the importance of their inspiring a concrete change in government or commercial policy, if they can actually achieve that. I would at that point take it all back and apologise for doubting them. Until then I think they’re climate Swappies playing at revolution.