Everything I mention below by way of a nurturing behavioural dynamic becoming implemented as our global cultural dynamic is within the realms of possibility, and therefore there is both a practical and feasible path towards a happy Earth.
It is important to remember you and I were born into a culture that was a bully cult and that you and I did not create it.
It was truly scuppered before you I was born. It was scuppered long before any of us alive were born. And it's also true that some people are continuing to cause a lot of harm, and things are getting worse as a result.
The core behavioural dynamic is externalising costs. That is evading the costs, impacts and harms of an activity engaged in, - Fossil Fuel Use, for example - by masking those costs, by ignoring those costs in Risk Assessments, by bribing policy makers to ignore those costs, by placing corporate employees into Government, by the costs do not exist, by denying the costs are linked to the activity - in essence the adverse impacts are kept external to the money transaction, the profit efficiency is maximised at every stage, from extraction of the Oil and Gas, to it's distribution, sale and consumption and it's waste products at every stage. Part of the activity is to gaslight anyone who becomes aware of these costs and starts to ask questions.
Did you know that the concept of a personal carbon footprint was popularised by BP in a 2004/5 marketing campaign that cost close to $1000,000,0000?
"The oil giant British Petroleum (BP) actually hired PR professionals to invent a concept designed to blame individuals, not fossil fuel companies, for climate change. And it was BP that revealed the phrase "carbon footprint", along with a "carbon footprint calculator", in 2004."
source : https://interestingengineering.com/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change
As I wrote above, the system was already toxic before either you or I was born. The costs of slavery were externalised. The costs of every Monarchs Wealth have always been always externalised. The costs of every war is externalised. People and environment endure those costs, both suffer and die from those costs, and the costs are neither prevented nor are they paid for by the profiteers.
Climate Disruption is an externalised cost of the Fossil Fuel Industry. Environmental Degradation is an externalised cost of Industrial Farming and Industrial Fishing practice. Particulate Pollution is an externalised costs of the combustion engine industry. PTSD is an externalised cost of Invasion and Warfare.
The question is this - would you like to help clean all this up? Is that what you'd like your children to inherit? The results of your best efforts to make the changes needed so that polluters pay the full costs and to prevent the problems they are causing. Think of your children and their contemporaries. Even if you don't have children, you do have a shared human adult responsibility to all the children.
Problems.
What to do?
It doesn't have to be this way. It is not idealistic to think so, it is practical, humane and also obvious. That it is this way is clear, this is the way it is. And it doesn't have to be this way.
The locals told him to not worry. "It's already happened! Our ancestors had seen the end of the world." History recounts that the end of their world had been brought to them through European colonisation, a violent conquest which commodified people and habitat alike to extract vast, vast wealth for Kings, Queens and their Oligarchs.
Which in turn led to rampant industrial raw material extraction with cheap hard labour the lot of the majority those who survived. Empires were built on the backs of enslaved peoples. European industrial power still stalks South America, as it does elsewhere. A lethal stalker. The history is well understood.
The Bully Cult.
That said, it is also true that the Bully Cultist cannot relax.
Every Bully Cult lives on edge, knowing that sooner or later the majority will respond, and it wont' be kind.
Kindest regards
Cornilius
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