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Climate catastrophe is on the way and we're arguing about what's causing it. Instead of dealing with it, corporations are instead positioning themselves to make more profits. Climate change will make growing food more difficult and as the conditions worsen, everything else will become progressively worse along with it.
I'm not worried about what's causing it anymore ... I already know it's human behaviour
What worries me the most is ... human behaviour
This is why I've started pushing back on those who criticize me for my attention to the "small" things. Those small things are founded in the same ideologies and cognitive and statistical failures that lie behind the big problems.
Everything we can do to fix the small things at their source will take us a step closer to fixing the big things. Short of some dictator taking over and forcing us to do what's necessary, our best line of attack is on the underlying ideas and behaviours.
That is also why I tend to doomerism. What we have now is the result of 60 or more years of concerted effort, with Reagan and Thatcher representing the ideological tipping point. We now have 50 years of those ideologies becoming so entrenched that everyone just takes them as objective fact. That means that only variations on the theme are generally accepted as legitimate areas of discussion.