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matrixmannYou know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.
So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.
To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.
If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.
So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.
To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.
If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).
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Date: 14 August 2022 10:23 pm (UTC)In that point, they're equipped with modern technology than the West.
Yeah, and now that you mention it...
Vehicles driven by electric engines in the big cities, used in a widespread manner - indeed, that's a way to get your cities "cleaner", less full of bad air from fuel emissions, without cutting any of the transportation means short.
Well, I've already noticed in several such ways where you deal with technology in detail that the current "Greens" know a shit.
As I said, they're more from any social sciences background than a technological one - so, guess what weighs more in their ranks?
Ideas and dreams, not realities and solving particular problems.
And from castles in the sky, nobody can even buy himself a sandwich. They're useless without any practical way of turning thought into materia.
And that they have a pretty distorted and uneducated image of the past - well, if you're just a bit smart, you recognize that pretty quickly.
All just possessed by American Identity Politics - which suit for no other society than the American one...
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Date: 15 August 2022 09:15 am (UTC)In that point, they're equipped with modern technology than the West.”
We have in Russia all we could dream of, plus our tariffs are still cheap – price for electricity – 0.0692 $ kilowatt per hour, petroleum – 0.6 $ per liter, earth for building a house which is located 70 kilometers from capital where I am living (far cheaper) - 1667 $ per 100 square meters and you could buy as much as you want and so on… Salaries are still low but if you are working on yourself you earn much more than a middle Russian salary – which is 500$...
“And from castles in the sky, nobody can even buy himself a sandwich. They're useless without any practical way of turning thought into materia.”
I am certain that many of them were not finishing any institute… to protest is much more easy than to do something real. Look on the flag of greens nowadays – Gretta and who is surrounds her? ))
“All just possessed by American Identity Politics - which suit for no other society than the American one...”
The strange thing today is that the modern politic of USA now is against all common people and the Americans are not an exception… Just think about the fact that Americans now want to take children from parents and without their will to change their gender – to cut out wombs and dicks and replace them on what? ))) On the plastic copies?! ))) Democrats at USA are the servicemen of Devil no more no less. Look how they are trying to rewrite Bible about all the gay’s shit… It is the last days at least of USA that’s for sure…
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Date: 15 August 2022 12:38 pm (UTC)In latter areas, those things are all way more expensive...
I am certain that many of them were not finishing any institute…
Hm, yeah, you can put that question, of course.
The people which have showed up in the environmental activism were the Fridays For Future kids, who all were just school students and still lived with their parents.
Taking that into account - of course, you can claim a lot to happen. It's gonna be the task of other people to turn it into reality.
Additionally, you don't need to rack your brains about your own lifestyle and resource consumption. (Which is what school kids very unlikely do as they're still too your for a broad overview of the topic and they also still lack the consciousness of how their own lifestyle is made possible. They take their Playstation 4s/5s and XBoxes and smartphones all as self-evident and think they're fueled with nothing to run.)
The first activists from the front of that, meanwhile, are at the beginning of the adult years or in their mid 20s.
Just the kind of age, as stated, when you still go to university and only have to care about your own cause (not a family with kids attached too, e. g.).
Of course, one can doubt if these already have any formal graduation certificate in their stock, or if, if they have one in a field which is really relevant for talking big in terms "how people need to live in order to soothe climate change".
Greta, I think... she did mean her strike for the climate honestly, but what she lacked about the whole wave she kicked loose is: Even if maybe educated, she was still a teen and psychologically as well as socially as naive as a teen (addionally socially handicapped by Asperger's, if that is factually true). She started her "war" with symbolic gestures which, in the end, mean nothing to the problem of climate change.
If you really wanna do something, then you'll have to go to war with the whole capitalist system - and this might mean, you'll have to become their arch enemy who they want to assassinate.
Greta, as pretty typical for her generation, thought it's done with just a foot stomp and the adults reacting to her, doing what she demands. Because the adults always reacted to her if she did that and maybe somehow complied with the claims she raised.
World politics doesn't work like this. - Or, if you want to make the politicians of other countries look at you and maybe comply with your claims, then you have to bring up a pretty big foot stomp so that they do that. Something as big as maybe what North Korea has, for example.