Why Do We Bring Fairy Tales Into The Climate Conversation?
Doesn't it just distract us from finding real solutions?
I’ve been wondering…
Has it occurred to anyone (or everyone) that engaging and commenting on what the mainstream media has to say about climate change is nothing but a distraction and delays us from having a meaningful and urgent conversation about the state of our climate?
Whether its…
Net zero targets, ESG, science based targets, the circular economy, carbon capture and storage, promises by politicians and corporations, ideas from completely unhinged billionaires and seemingly objective insight from any institution that receives direct corporate funding or advertising revenue from corporations…is getting us nowhere.
NONE of the above has provided a pathway to climate stability. When we comment and discuss the above fairytales, we give them space to be part of a conversation to which they offer no credible insight. Just spin and propaganda.
Wouldn’t it be better to discuss the ideas of those who are telling the truth like:
Jason Hickel
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-treated-climate-change-as-an-actual-emergency
https://twitter.com/jasonhickel
George Monbiot
https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot
Kevin Anderson
https://twitter.com/KevinClimate
Agree or disagree?
Cheers,
Brad
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I could not agree more and I'm thankful someone else out there feels the same way I do. As a historian who has spent a lot of time studying societies that break and collapse quickly, it couldn't be more evident to me that the scale of the change we need, and the very short time we have to implement it, are completely excluded from consideration by the fairy tale so-called solutions. A circular economy and a carbon tax are great ideas...if we had 50 years to implement them. We don't have 50 years. We have 5 years. Why doesn't anyone understand this?
Well no, I don't completely agree. Not all the things you list here are "fairy tales", some of them are in fact much needed sea changes. Jason Hickel and George Monbiot will tell you that unregulated capitalism and unrestrained consumption are destroying the planet. So what do we need to replace capitalism with? We need to envision a replacement for the culture that has brought us to the edge of the precipice. And that's why the work of economists like Kate Raworth on circular/doughnut economies is vital, as Hickel and Monbiot would agree.