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Just when the planet needed him most, when people had lost all hope, a neurodiverse hero succeeded against all the odds...
I'm just looking for some light at the end of tunnel here. Nobody seems to be pointing the way, so I've picked up a shovel. Cynically pooh-poohing; well, I'll leave calculating the worth of that as an exercise for the reader.
Kimmo
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@kimmo I agree with some of your diagnosis, but I think what is rubbing people up the wrong way is the messianic main character energy you are bringing to it.
Yeah, it's a bit Hollywood.
As hoefla has gently pointed out, there are many activists, academics, people in the third sector, and even people in business and government, who are thinking about these issues in very sophisticated ways to drive change. Admittedly they are not having the success we would like to see.
My two simple thoughts are these.
1). Democratic action is still the best hope. But we need our democracies to be reformed, with our political parties freed from funding / lobbying from special interest. This is the biggest and first task and there is no guarantee of success. A good strategy for climate activists would be to infiltrate all parties, rather than concentrating on a single party as a vehicle.
2). I'm sure there is a whole academic literature I am ignorant of, and probably even policy that has been deployed in this space, but I wonder how much could be achieved by incentivising behaviour change. Can government pay people not to take foreign holidays? Could people be granted ESG invested bonds, for reducing their meat and diary intake? Could they get a favourable tax rate if they stop using cars?
A positive thought is that you can change the culture and behaviour more quickly than ever through the media available to us. I trust climate activists are applying Gramsci to Instagram, Facebook and tik-tok.
Can we subvert the cultural norms of high-status chimp behaviour (private jets, selfies in infinity pools, Mercedes G-Wagons, etc)? For a practical taster in the difficulties of this, see if you can subvert the car appreciation thread on our very own forum.