Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts too much.
I think people would feel a lot more responsibility if they actually had a decent say in what goes on. Our individual actions do so little to change things relative to the actions of corporate goliaths and governments that it kind of makes logical sense to just give up and try to enjoy your life.
When our “democracy” (speaking specifically to the US here) essentially amounts to voting between two shitty options nobody likes and having to wait four years to remove them if they do something you don’t like, you can’t really call that a system that gives power to the people. We need more direct democracy imbedded in these systems so that we can quickly reverse bad decisions and implement new laws, directly. Otherwise, why should people feel responsibility?
I think people would feel a lot more responsibility if they actually had a decent say in what goes on. Our individual actions do so little to change things relative to the actions of corporate goliaths and governments that it kind of makes logical sense to just give up and try to enjoy your life.
When our “democracy” (speaking specifically to the US here) essentially amounts to voting between two shitty options nobody likes and having to wait four years to remove them if they do something you don’t like, you can’t really call that a system that gives power to the people. We need more direct democracy imbedded in these systems so that we can quickly reverse bad decisions and implement new laws, directly. Otherwise, why should people feel responsibility?