Sunday, June 14, 2020

"The System" and Climate Change Still Exists

COVID-19 is the equivalent to everyone being ultra-responsible, carbon footprint reducing, riding-your-bike-to-work heroes... did all our environmental concerns go away? We got a couple clearer-air-days...but NO. Now I don't want to discourage people from being their best, most responsible selves, but it also shows that many of our problems are deeper and STRUCTURAL. The dirty power plants didn't stop for COVID-19...the 1-use plastics didn't stop being produced (in fact they may even have ramped up production with all the shipping and deliveries)... and somehow the media still found time to quote every nonsense thing Trump said, while ignoring that we should be using this "isolating" period to reflect on how we live, what outcomes our System produces, and solving actual problems. The biggest revelation this period has shown to me...Personal Responsibility is NOT the answer. You cannot solve COVID-19 with it, you cannot solve Police Brutality with it, and you can't solve Climate Destabilization with it...we need Structural Change, we need to put Sound Policies in place...and we need to ENABLE that by putting people with Wisdom, Knowledge, and Principled Ethics in places of decision making power. We must get away from this idea that the world is merely a collection of individuals, whose actions only affect themselves, and whose individual moralities create the morality of the System...no, a System must be DESIGNED to be Just, designed to be efficient, designed to reduce suffering, designed to increase Understanding, designed to mitigate conflict, and designed to create Healthy Humans.

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