- 14 Dec 2016 04:04
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Hey! easy up buddy! with that attitude we might as well line up and suicide in mass. Your view of the word is more pessimistic than pragmatic.
First: We are not destroying the world. We are changing it. You can argue that we are destroying ourselves... and perhaps that's true. The word (and its ecosystems) have seen far more violent changes through history and it's still here. The earth was warmer a few hundreds years ago and it was thriving with life despite having far more CO2 and higher temperatures than we have now. Yes we would probably die if that happen (or at least the population drop significantly and habitable areas as well) but the world itself will be fine.
Pessimistic attitude does not help either. How many NASA engineers were like "going to space is impossible, stop trying"?
I understand you are unhappy how the world is ran, to be honest I am not very happy with it either but it has been way worse also so there is hope that we are moving in the right direction.
We need a bit more optimism, we need the idiots that think global warming is not real/man made to wake the heck up but we also need the tree huggers to realize that abrupt change is not likely to happen (unless some kind of cataclysm or something) and have to work in a realistic manner.
QatzelOk wrote:I don't "throw brainwashing" around. I have studied the phenomenon extensively.
By urban design and by mass media, the range of emotions of the citizen are reduced to something that can be controlled by 'the state' which, in the USA, means the largest corporations.
And unlike governments, this "state" answers to no one. Like the worst dictators of olde.
Also, since capitalism has produced so many things that can destroy the built environment, the fact that we're still plodding along in SUVS and using up all our precious oil... demonstrates that our regulations serve only the interests of "the corporate state."
This is perhaps the largest tragedy (and the most abusive power relationship) in the history of homo sapiens. And corporations are making sure we sleep through our own demise so they can keep on selling hamburgers until the earth's clock runs out.
The cold stoicism of the modern consumer is a product of mass media overconsumption. It has made us fatally numb to things that affect our survival.
Hey! easy up buddy! with that attitude we might as well line up and suicide in mass. Your view of the word is more pessimistic than pragmatic.
First: We are not destroying the world. We are changing it. You can argue that we are destroying ourselves... and perhaps that's true. The word (and its ecosystems) have seen far more violent changes through history and it's still here. The earth was warmer a few hundreds years ago and it was thriving with life despite having far more CO2 and higher temperatures than we have now. Yes we would probably die if that happen (or at least the population drop significantly and habitable areas as well) but the world itself will be fine.
Pessimistic attitude does not help either. How many NASA engineers were like "going to space is impossible, stop trying"?
I understand you are unhappy how the world is ran, to be honest I am not very happy with it either but it has been way worse also so there is hope that we are moving in the right direction.
We need a bit more optimism, we need the idiots that think global warming is not real/man made to wake the heck up but we also need the tree huggers to realize that abrupt change is not likely to happen (unless some kind of cataclysm or something) and have to work in a realistic manner.