‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis | Climate crisis

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1. “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”

   We need unilateral swift action on behalf of all of the planet.

   People say this is impossible.

   Look what we did during covid! How quickly things changed and long-standing routines were completely disrupted for the good of all.

   We need that for climate. We need a planet that creates a stable, sustainable world for everyone, not just the rich countries.

   The entire world needs to come together now more so than ever.

   It’s not a lost cause to believe in the regenerative capabilities of the earth and nature.

   We are our only chance.

2. Anything less than a complete change away from not just our consumer society but our financial system driven by profit at any cost is a Band-Aid solution.

   I remember back around 2016 there was a lot of talk about recycling plastics, which we are now finding out is a bunch of hooey. During that same year 200 million dollars worth of new plastic factories went online. So out of one side of the mouth I heard oh we can have our plastics and we’ll just recycle them and everything will be fine, and out of the other side of the mouth I heard let’s wrap everything in plastic! And indeed that’s exactly what happened. That’s why the situation is impossible and anything less than wholesale change is not enough.

3. You lost me at psychoanalysis.

4. >‘What if there just is no solution?’

   If there is no solution, then you must be thinking of a different problem, a problem other than climate change.

   Because climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, and we know exactly what the solution is, for the problem of burning fossil fuels.

   **The solution is to stop burning them**.

5. Because it will need to be an entire cultural shift away from worshipping the economy. We will need a way for people to live decent lives without working all day making excess crap.