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Re:Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change sc... by nradov on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:11PM (#32324348)
You aren't going to get anyone to embrace de-growth by telling stories. Instead, find ways that technology can enable continued growth while simultaneously decreasing environmental impact. If you force people to pick between global warming versus a major step down in living standards, a lot of them are just going to say screw it and pick global warming.
Re:Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change sc... by felixmeziere on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:27PM (#32324507)
Everyone tells themselves stories. Like « what’s cool in life is to try and be a billionaire so I can get a private jet and everybody treat me like a king », or, at the level of a country « we should build entire new cities and airports and stimulate growth to increase GDP which is the main metric measuring our success » or, if you are an economist: “what nature has concentrated for us for free for millions of years, like oil, clean air, water, sand for construction etc, is free”.

I’m not talking about telling stories to people but about changing theses stories they already tell themselves that have been implanted into them by a system