cross-posted from: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/11288860
Instead, Cerezo-Mota expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century, soaring past the internationally agreed 1.5C target and delivering enormous suffering to billions of people. This is her optimistic view, she says.
I reckon, if we just simply made corporations pay the appropriate tax based on their climate destroying activities, we’d have enough to green the planet in literally a few years. There is trillions of dollars pouring into the pockets of industry that should be going to protect us.
It’s just so bizzare that people seem to accept this as fine and normal. They’re literally selling us the poison that we use to destroy ourselves, and not even paying taxes in most cases. It’s a world wide problem and it’s obscene.
I think your idea is a very fine idea but at the same time very naive.
One can start advocating what you did. Looking at classes like poor and rich, the poor are definitely the majority, so theoretically one should be able to plant the seed of thought.
But in praxis that doesn’t necessarily work that way. I believe one will immediately be called ‘too extreme’ if not ‘terrorist’ and struggle to gain supporters. It doesn’t help that much of the media is owned by few people.
At the same time the rich showed already that they have no intention to stop poisoning our life basis if that would mean less money for them.
So even if one gets people to follow the idea and starts to get political attention, rich corporations that have a threat to their income have also shown many times that it is not too difficult for them to make people disappear or that they ‘tragically die’ somehow.
I don’t think it’s particularly niave, if anything it’s just pointing out the obvious solution. I’m not expecting it to change, clearly the ruling class will run this ship into the ground, if the ‘people’ were going to rise up and demand change it most likely would have happened already.
I just think it’s an interesting reality that we’re living in.
You are right. I kind of read your first comment like “Why don’t we simply take matters in our hands” instead of “it’s strange that many accept this exploitation of environment and even humans as perfectly normal”.
It is interesting and depressing to look at. It’s also fascinating to see how many people seem to be successfully brainwashed or whatever the reason is they vote against their own interest.