When we talk about solving climate change (ration energy, leave the fossils in the ground, any DACCS and BioCCS should be funded directly instead of as an excuse to burn more fossils, fix market capitalism’s bugs or replace it outright, tax the rich, get money out of politics) what they hear is akin to as if we would’ve said “Oh, why do you need doors or windows? Just walk through the walls with ghost powers” or “Why do you need stairs? Just stride up the clouds”.
That is how deep their programming goes.
They’re living in a completely cart-before-horse world where the economy as it currently works today is seen as the prereq for any kind of changes. Even though it’s in reality the other way around; we can’t have an economy if there are no people because everyone died and starved and burned from climate change.
The truth is that big changes are possible and have been possible.
When my parents were little we had never been to the moon and here in Sweden we literally drove on the other side of the road. There was a huge traffic reform. And they lived through energy rationing. Actual here let’s divide up how much energy everyone gets to use because we actually realize there is an actual shortage.
When I was little music only came on records and tape and I lived through mp3, GNU, Debian, Wikipedia. And fridges and hairspray were eating up the ozone layer. And Berlin was split by a wall.
Even most of all y’all reading this has lived through the pandemic era when streets where empty once more.