Donald wrote:@Atlantis preoccupation with lifestyle choices is probably why the political will to do anything about climate change is weak in the Anglosphere. People are living paycheck-to-paycheck in North America (or have joined the ranks of the working homeless) due to high inequality levels and activists subsequently expect progress on the climate without addressing the on-going social disintegration that is occurring. Under such conditions it is very easy for industry interests to exploit climate denial.
I understand what you are saying, but try to look at it from the outside. The Anglosphere comprises the richest and most powerful countries on the planet. They take of the world's resources whatever they want. Their corporate empire sucks the world's wealth into Wall Street or the City of London and their associated tax havens.
No matter what they proclaim, people in the Anglosphere know perfectly well that they are among the privileged few. Why else would they want to build walls or closed prison camps for refugees to keep the poor out?
The US plutocracy is responsible for the unequal distribution of wealth. US imperialism extends the greed of the colonial settlers to the whole world by monopoly capitalism, political pressure, and if need be, by bombs and missiles. The US has no problem with dictators or retarded regimes as in KSA as long as they bend to US dictate. Iran's sin is to resist imperialist aggression.
There can be no unlimited expansion, imperialism is fundamentally unstable, it has to collapse sooner or later.