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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17540 on: 26/02/2021 12:21:52 »
Everything will get more expensive for you as this continue. Your wallet will shrink, no matter what you do. That a few extremes due to the game gain a disproportionate amount of profits from it doesn't mean that you do. The balance between them and you will grow at the same time as the whole contraption sinks, due to global warming, inequality, greed, incompetence, water, groundwater, overfishing, acidity, floods and droughts, pesticides and artificial fertilizers, pollutions as micro plastics, deforestation's, wild fires, assets disappearing with no recycling, topsoil disappearing, fiercer and longer lasting storms,   and the list goes on.


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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17541 on: 26/02/2021 12:24:16 »
Now, if it was only that. But the end comes where you have no one standing up for you, no one giving you a hand to survive.

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17542 on: 26/02/2021 12:29:09 »
Every man for himself sounds okay, when it fills your wallet. You sure it going to sound as good for your kids?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17543 on: 26/02/2021 12:37:06 »
So what do you want to do?
Wait it out?

Or do you want to change it.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17544 on: 26/02/2021 13:37:21 »
I'll tell you a secret, you can't wait it out.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17545 on: 26/02/2021 13:48:43 »
This becomes a sort of joke to me. None of the countries are doing anything worthwhile so far. It's still about words. No bans, no action. Words. Still, if intensions was fish we would all be feed. Their failure is inherent to the game they play.

and without changing the game you fail.

https://climateactiontracker.org/climate-target-update-tracker/

https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-coronavirus-pandemic-china-united-nations-baf7d41df6a3e909afecaa54025cdf7a
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« Reply #17546 on: 26/02/2021 14:02:29 »
There is another side effect to not daring to do something. It makes people think that it can't be as catastrophic as it is. Because if it was, wouldn't our 'leaders' do something? The answer there is that they won't go against the hand that feeds them. The same hand that feeds you actually. The game.
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« Reply #17547 on: 26/02/2021 14:04:28 »
They can send up how many satellites they like, go to mars, create new studies.

doesn't mean a thing.
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« Reply #17548 on: 26/02/2021 14:13:03 »
To me it's all infra structures, the wrong ones. It's intentions, it's words, it's promises. But the reality behind those is bound to support the wrong type of infra structures, the wrong type of spending. You're prepared to spend trillions on war but nothing on global warming. You're prepared to go to space but you won't have anything of worth waiting for you at home.
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« Reply #17549 on: 26/02/2021 14:14:03 »
Stupid doesn't cover it.
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« Reply #17550 on: 26/02/2021 14:19:30 »
Then we can look at what you're not prepared to do. Changing farming practices, banning pesticides, plastics, oil, coal, and that marvelous invention 'Natural gas' including fracking, deforestation's, overfishing. And the list goes on there too. It's related to the game and the infra structures you built that too.
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« Reply #17551 on: 26/02/2021 14:21:06 »
Can you see why the whole game needs to change if you want something done?
Or you can't?
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« Reply #17552 on: 26/02/2021 14:27:30 »
It's a game based on inequality and profits. The excuse for it is that you get what you want, or possibly deserve. Everything has to make a profit, your country, yourself. Enough will never be enough for the game. So it expect itself able to wait until it becomes more profitable to be 'green' than not. It also expect itself to be able to keep the existing infra structures, hierarchies, inequality.
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« Reply #17553 on: 26/02/2021 14:28:08 »
It's a equation that won't work out.
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« Reply #17554 on: 26/02/2021 14:29:39 »
When becoming 'green' also become 'profitable', according to this game, will be when we lost all ways out of global warming.
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« Reply #17555 on: 26/02/2021 14:31:37 »
And the way it thinks of it, becoming 'green', will still be a failure as it will be based on the wrong infra structures. You don't get a thing, do you?
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« Reply #17556 on: 26/02/2021 14:45:08 »
The most plausible outcome to me are mass starvation's and wars, and with it a broken international trade and lot more ugly geopolitics. with it your own society will change from what you call a democratic to a repressive.
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« Reply #17557 on: 26/02/2021 14:48:07 »
And it will be comparatively easy to arrange that change. When Mr Trump wanted 'his' soldiers to support him it was due to a few people high in the military hierarchy that he didn't get them out in the streets. You all have hierarchies, and you all leave it to your 'leaders'.
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« Reply #17558 on: 26/02/2021 14:48:53 »
The same leaders that today looks increasingly incompetent.
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« Reply #17559 on: 26/02/2021 14:50:35 »
It's not only your leaders that are incompetent here.
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