Ah, humanity in a nutshell. 🙃
We mean well. We do!
Just, don't ask us to make sacrifices. We have a finely honed ability to be concerned about a situation without being ready to take action over it.
This is our gift to the cosmos.
Some animals leave other (dead) animals at people's doorsteps -so who's to say which species is the messiest, right? 🙃
(Morning CoSo! Hope your first news of the day was more fun!)
@MLClark I'm sure there are a ton of people desperately wanting to change their lifestyles but unable to do so because of policies protecting other people's lifestyles. First example that comes to mind is bike lanes in cities, and taxpayers in the suburbs who loathe funding public transportation. 😥
@JakeA 100%. We are a multifaceted species, and tons of us would love to be doing better. We just don't have a large enough civic sensibility cultivated well enough to make it easy.
@MLClark *whispers* "Save the planet, pass it on."
Foolproof method of cultivating civic sensibility. I say we implement it immediately!
@JakeA 😂 Let's make it a chain letter! Those used to have great success, didn't they?
"If you don't send this to 10 people by MIDNIGHT, the ghost of a polar bear forced out of its habitat will MAUL YOU.
XOXO,
Aunt Gertrude
P.S. Are you coming to your cousin's birthday party?"
@JakeA That's not the lifestyles that people have trouble changing, otherwise people would have gone vegan 20 years ago. Would buy clothing that don't contain microplastics, unplug electronics when not in use, buy bar soaps and shampoos instead of bottled, etc.
It's the things that make people uncomfortable and feel like their lifestyle has been inconvenienced. The things people make excuses for - it's big farms that's the problem, companies produce the stuff, it's hard to find.Bull
@Rocker Same problem, isn't it? There aren't incentives for corporations to be better, and it puts the burden on people who don't think they can change anything. Vicious cycle of "it sucks anyway, so why bother".
I'm just grumbling because I cut out most meat from my diet, sold my car, switched to bar soaps, etc. and these headlines make me sad. Better philosophy is "it sucks, but let's try anyway".
@JakeA Same here. Though, from my POV, consumers drive the market in this case.
All the alternatives exist, but people don't want them. Every day, I talk to people who say 'Sweden's agriculture is our history* as though that means something for now, or that it can't be used to directly grow food for people instead of cows. Or people who don't want to "waste" their month-long vacation by spending a few extra days on a train instead of a plane. 😑 Meet kids are scared, and adults refuse to change.
@MLClark Well put. Wimpy was right. I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.