Using water as an example. Abbolishing the beef industry would be one way we could save a lot of water. How long do you reckon a government that took that action would last? What would the message to people be from our media? News Ltd. etc. would go to town. The propaganda would be off the charts. The populace would swallow anything if it meant they didn’t have to give up their hamburgers.
Absolutely we need good governance, but we also need a change in conciousness at a cultural level. We need the majority to think about the future and to be able to sift through the BS and do what’s right.
Even in Europe, where polls show citizens overwhelmingly accept climate science and support stopping planet-heating pollution, a quiet but deadly form of denial has emerged.
Far-right parties have gained ground across the continent, even as they make fighting climate policy – aided by the Heartland Institute, a US thinktank funded by fossil fuels – their second priority after immigration. Centrist leaders, alarmed by their success and anxious to placate polluting industries, are rolling back green rules with a vigour that has surprised even some lobbyists. This month, ahead of a meeting in Antwerp between the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and business leaders, the EU’s carbon price – the cornerstone of its pollution-cutting efforts – found itself in the crosshairs of the powerful chemical industry.
All the while, evacuation alerts are lighting up phones and rivers are bursting their banks as new storms form before the waters from the last have receded. Alice, Benjamin and Claudia were the storms named by meteorologists that started the season in southern Europe in October and November. David, Emilia and Francis led to a wet December. In January, five storms struck in quick succession – Goretti, Harry, Ingrid, Joseph and Kristin – while in February there were just as many – Leonardo, Martha, Nils, Oriana and Pedro – in the first two weeks. The season is one storm shy of the record 17 that hit in the 2023-24 season, with forecasters having reached the second half of the alphabet in far less time.
Nobody in any government wants to even go close to this. It’s an abominable shame. Humans aren’t giving up meat, there should be a global investment in lab grown. Industrial meat farming is about the most insane and horrific thing we do.
And to put an even more dismal light on doom: if we get pushed back to stone age or even bronze age technology there is no way to get back to present levels.
But as long as current billionaires get even more billions, why worry.
I don’t think people, on a population level, are good at making that sort of shift in that sort of time line.
A generation, maybe. And needs to have some calm, clear, settled messaging. People didn’t like seatbelts, rules against drink driving, changes to CFCs or the 4.5L flush toilets.
In the real world, too many vested interests will stop there from ever being calm, settled messaging or any real change. And all the $$$ seem to hate their children/grandchildren too much to have any personal investment in earth.
I was thinking maaaaaybe Tool are making a claim here.
But no.
“Staying within the metal category, at the top of the list is Black Sabbath, who ranked at 52% with the most lexical diversity, followed by Slayer with 51% and Megadeth with 45%.”
I once had a very similar discussion with Peter Garrett when he was Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts. His favourite band was Rage Against The Machine and he knew all there songs.
