UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet
www.theguardian.com
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9336139

He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO

“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.”

over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.

“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”

“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.

I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it’s 0

  • InfynisEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    Humanity’s strongest trait evolutionarily, except for maybe our intelligence, is our endurance and ability to shrug off injury. I think the mindset that caused, is the reason we’re so slow to address problems

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      5·
      6 months ago

      Also carbon-driven climate change is the largest tragedy of the commons possible (at our current tech level) and humans have never successfully conducted the level of cooperation required to solve it.

      Closest analog is CFC-driven ozone layer decay. That was mostly solved because the solutions aren’t that painful . I don’t really care that all aerosol cans work a little worse now that we don’t put CFCs in them. Climate change isn’t that . The solutions require deep, painful, and expensive change. Easier to just pretend everything is fine and ignore it.