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Two roads diverged:
Tribalism vs human solidarity
Competition vs cooperation: blindsided by petty internal bickering
As long as we're fighting/quarreling among ourselves,(warring with each other)
we won't see the real enemy (climate change) coming!!
We may become so preoccupied with ,petty infighting that we are caught off guard.
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Tragedy/adversity brings people together.
Perhaps the ecosystem crises that threatens the planet will unite humanity if we can see this event as our common enemy requiring cooperation to achieve a common goal.
Climate change deniers are isolationists--more interested in building walls rather than bridges.
They resist unificatjon/globalization .
.To them subordinating one's personal interests
for the common good is perceived as a threat.
The climate crises is a global calamity that can only be
solved through a unified global response.
If humanity fails to unite (bring an end to war)for the purpose of achieving this common goal
they cannot overcome this threat.
At a time when unity and solidarity among the global community was never more critical ,populist leaders are pulling away from international cooperation (globalism)
.Putting their own interests ahead of those of humanity could see efforts to address globall problems unravel.
Dealing with climate change requires a cooperative effort on the part of the international community.
In today's world where we are dealing with wars,extremism, hatred,oppression,isolationism ,and negativity...it's wonderful to see that humanity can set all that aside and work collaborative!y toward one goal.
.It's a pity that politicians don't seem to be able to work together in the same way.
Putin has succeeded in his goal to divide the American people and. setting them against eavh other
ReplyDeleteThe worst thing thst could happen from Putin 's perspective would be if the American people were. to set a side tneir differences a nd come together united as one.
we have to work together to achieve the common goal of solving climate change!
ReplyDeleteAntonio Guterres urges countries to unite to fight climate change:
ReplyDeletehttps://news.un.org/en/interview/2019/09/1046822
The Amazon rainforest used to be the world's biggest carbon sink. But researchers say it could become a major carbon emitter if we don't act fast
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens/clip/15760573-nowhere-to-run-to
blindsided by mother nature : sometimes people need a bit of a nudge to change their behaviour. Corvid-19 is providing that nudge!
ReplyDeleteNo one foresaw that a virus would depopulate the planet and impose an unexpected solution to climate change and global ecological disaster
Economic degrowth:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eenews.net/stories/1062743761?fbclid=IwAR2AZ2Kw1vMsxREnSG3P3WfKtM239pW7n3zqahF2SGNzLi0TXL8RcBUWU1g
"COVID-19 may deliver some short-term climate benefits by curbing energy use, or even longer-term benefits if economic stimulus is linked to climate goals — or if people get used to telecommuting and thus use less oil in the future," Jason Bordoff, a former climate adviser in the Obama administration and the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, wrote in Foreign Policy last week.
"Yet any climate benefits from the COVID-19 crisis are likely to be fleeting and negligible," he added. "Rather, the pandemic is a reminder of just how wicked a problem climate change is because it requires collective action, public understanding and buy-in, and decarbonizing the energy mix while supporting economic growth and energy use around the world."
people are discarding their waste heedlessly...totally ignorant of the
ReplyDeleteintim a te connection between the environment and themselves.
Our own health is integrally dependent on the health of the planet!
If we treat our environment with disrespect, we will suffer the consequences.
We will inevitably reap what we sow!
This is deadly serious!!
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-litter-face-mask-gloves-sidewalks-de-blasio-20200402-65q7wmomnjfwxnxbh4i5lksyna-story.html
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ReplyDeletethe experience of widespread global suffering will wake people up.
Covid-19 is a minor blip compared to the far greater challenge of climate change!
Climate change poses a far greater menace and will cause far greater human suffering than the Covid-19 pandemic
Capitalism and the consumer culture is the cause of climate change and global ecosystem collapse.
We have to come up with new ways of thinking and living in the world.The old ways of living are no longer sustainable.
Is there an alternative to the present dystopia we have created?
Our behaviour has had an immense impact on the natural world we live in. We created a world that is now hostile to all life.
Floods, fires, and extreme weather events bring to awareness our dependence upon nature
the catastrophic consequences of climate change are causing a shift in human consciousness and change in human behaviour.
This transformation can be described as a shift from globalized indifference to globalized empathy and oneness.
We have to think of the kind of future we want, and reorganize our behaviour to achieve the future we intend. This will require a transformation (structural change)in our political,economic, social systems and institutions
I would like to tell you a few things about this virus and the lessons it should teach us, all the things we should be learning.
ReplyDeleteby Paul Kingsnorth
fish have returned to the Venetian canals now that humans have stopped polluting them.
the clouds of air pollution over Italy and China have dissipated since people were prevented from causing them with their cars, planes, factories.
up to 80,000 premature deaths which would have been caused by smog have probably been prevented in China by the shutdown of the economy.
carbon monoxide levels in the air above New York have collapsed by 50 percent in a single week.
Nature recovers swiftly when we stop our plundering of Her bounty.
We can learn from this, we can change.
Now I will say what I believe :
People will not learn anything from this virus.
All this civilization wants to do is to get back to normal.
Normal is cheap flights and cheap lattes, normal is Chinese girls sewing our T-shirts under armed guard, normal is biblical bushfires and barrels of oil, normal is contrails and international conferences and African children poisoning their bodies sorting the plastic we have dumped on their coastlines, normal is pollution and burning forests ,and the death of the seas.
We made this normal, and we do not know how to unmake it, ....or we do not want to.
But Earth does, and it will.
If we go back to the way things were, we will have learned nothing!
ReplyDeleteWill we send tne homeless now being housed back onto the streets?
ReplyDeleteWill the seniors care homes return to being short-staffed and operated on a forprofit basis?
Will the air-clearing reduction in carbon emmissions caused by the pandemic be a shortterm aberration ....and will we go back to preCovvid levels of pollution?
Will the greedsters and the. climate change denials come back out of the woodwork and insist that climate warming is not human caused?
If. we return to that trajectory...we are doomed!
humanity needs to organize itself to better deal with global issues as they arise!
ReplyDeleteFragmented adhoc national responses to pandemics have shown
us that global challenges require cooperative collective action!