[xpe]

> Will humans take this to heart and actually do the right thing? Sadly, probably not.

Don’t blame the people, blame the system.

Identifying the problem is just the first step. Building consensus and finding pragmatic solutions is hard. In my opinion, a lot of technical people struggle with the second sentence. So much of the ethos in our community is “I see a problem, and I can fix it on my own by building [X].” I think people are starting to realize this doesn’t scale. (Applying the scaling metaphor to people problems might itself be a blindspot.)

[starkparker]

You can blame both! The people are definitely not helping.

[xpe]

What kinds of actionable plans ever result from blaming people (as a category)? Where will it get you? Expecting some people to behave differently... just "because"? What kinds of plans flow downstream from blaming human nature? What's the plan? Does it help you somehow, practically? Or is it mostly about feeling better somehow?

If the plan is persuasion, putting blame aside goes a long way.

If you want to make change based in the real world, you could do worse that reading and absorbing "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by Donella Meadows.