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by fyvhbhn
1349 days ago
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Besides the obvious ignorance: I don't think she is saying what billions are thinking. If it were true we wouldn't be as badly progressing with climate action as we are. For instance, we would have already billions of vegan people. |
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I don't think anyone that's serious about climate change really argues that people should become vegan, of course, it would help. But what is needed is not these sort of individual choices leading to systemic change but systemic change leading to change in individual choices. In other words, you don't become vegan because your heart changes but because suddenly a mostly vegetable-based diet becomes the cheapest alternative through different government programs. Of course there's a lot of complexity to this and price mechanisms don't always work, but prices + cultural changes can.
Our change in diets should be tackled the same way obesity and smoking have been tackled. We need information campaigns and price incentives. These as you might see are not individual choices but political, state-wide, and for climate change these need to be world-wide policy changes. That's what serious climate activists advocate for.
What's the main problem? Our political systems are not capable of properly solving these issues any longer. In a few words: things don't get done anymore. So personally I think a big part that's missing in the climate change debate is precisely the question of "what sort of political system we need to ensure these changes are made". And I think someone like Greta actually fails in this regard, in that although she points out the problem and the culprits there is very little work done beyond that.