First substantive post, so I'll get right to the point. I think solving climate change is about courage. We're at the top of a ski hill, deciding what slope to take. We have all the tools and expertise to navigate the steepest slope. We need the guts to use them.
I talk about "The Scientific Case for Courage" in this video from last year.
@fst @simondonner
I don’t understand this statement, unless you buy into the corporate propaganda that climate change is the problem of individuals. It’s not. The problem isn’t that you can’t afford an electric car, it’s that there are no cheap used electric cars to buy and that public transportation sucks. It’s not that you don’t buy solar panels, it’s that solar farms aren’t being made fast enough.
It’s true we should eat less meat, eventually.
It has nothing to do with courage in some kind of generalized societal sense: it has to do with class conflict and whether we can overcome the current leaders of our societies.
@simondonner I don’t disagree in very general terms. The trouble is, who is this “we” of whom you speak?
Because, fundamentally, the blockages are about power, who wields it and how they maintain it (increasingly repressively) over the majority, who would love to see the kind of meaningful change that gave their kids a viable future
Thank you Simon. I agree with you, and feel you have nailed it.
The barrier to action is not ignorance. The gap is in commitment, in creativity and, most of all, in courage. Our inter-connection and inter-dependence can no longer be denied.
The kind of courage found in To Kill A Mockingbird, where Atticus tells his son Jem why he wanted him to go read to Mrs Dubose.
The kind of courage borne of sure knowledge of our interdependence.
See:
Simon Donner
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Rich Puchalsky 
Simon Johnson
Andrew
Tony Weddle