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No matter what you have heard from the business-as-usual industries, such as the (deceiving) #FossilFuel & (dieselgate) car industries (AKA greenwashers), a healthier lifestyle, more social equity & mitigating #ClimateChange are synonymous.
For example, an electric vehicle public transport system will reduce air pollution & free up land for #nature & #housing
Generally, the most polluting unsustainable industries are the greenwashing industries that spread #climate propaganda.
#Futuregen #book preview
To quote the book "The revolutionary book, Beyond the Limits, argued that society had gone into overshoot – a state of being beyond limits without knowing it: ‘we are overshooting such crucial resources as food and water while overwhelming nature with pollutants like those causing global warming’, and ‘a sustainable future will require profound social and psychological readjustments in the developed and developing world’. I read this in 1998 and was confused. Of course, we knew this – that was what Rio was all about. But why hadn’t governments acted on the information – or did they not want to know? I was heartened by
her conclusion that there could be a peaceful restructuring of the
‘system’ to a sustainable society, but concerned that evidence and
data were ‘useful, necessary and not enough’. So what else was
needed? " https://janedavidson.wales/press-and-reviews
Walking the right path towards a sustainable culture.
Over the last ten years or so, since the information that human activities are changing the climate went more mainstream, I've noticed virtually no sign that the people I see locally are doing anything to change their activities.
The local #sheep farmers: continue to burn piles of wood on their land (CO2 emissions). The local sheep farmers continue to transport sheep using diesel vehicles (CO2 emissions). The local landscape continues to be in a deforested and sheep-wrecked ecological condition (legacy CO2 emissions. Present & future CH₄ [methane] emission). The local farmers continue to be offended if their sheep farming lifestyles are called into question (i.e., they're not changing for anyone or anything).
The people I observe locally continue to drive combustion engine vehicles (CO2 emissions). The tourists continue to pull their caravans or drive the, often increasing in size, campervans (CO2 emissions). And of course, the fossil fuel industries continue to extract and sell more fossil fuels. The logging industries continue to sell wood fuel for power stations or people's wood stoves. The national #uk #conservative government continues to try and open a new coal mine locally. The local people continue to have coal, gas, or kerosene delivered by diesel trucks to their homes.
Generally, only over the last 10 years since environmental protestors made the mainstream pay attention to the science of climate change, nothing has generally changed locally that would mitigate climate change. The general businesses want to continue as usual, the average consumer wants to continue as usual.
What also has not changed over the previous ten years is that greenhouse gas emissions keep on rising https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions
However, there have been some noticeable changes locally over the previous ten years. There have been more frequent floods from autumn to winter and longer drier periods during summer.
I can't speak for the world. However, it's self-evident what the future is going to be for the people in my local community (they're not mitigating climate change. They're not adapting to be more climate resilient). Eventually, climate change is going to regulate their lifestyles in the most severe way. Of course, if the world (human population in general) acted to mitigate climate change (reduce their greenhouse gas emissions & restore their local ecosystems. i.e., natural habitats), my local communities' climate inaction, apathy, and virtue signaling wouldn't be so much of a problem. But, the world isn't mitigating climate change. Climate change is mitigating the world.
There is an ecologically and economically viable solution to living a low-impact lifestyle https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
However, a sustainable lifestyle requires a change of lifestyle (for the majority). And as with all animals, (most) humans behave as if they're creatures of habit (& belief).
The path to ecological sustainability is walking the path (not only talking about it & or not only protesting about it).
#futuregen #wales #climate #politics #economics #business #money #culture #corruption #psychology #MoralGrandstanding #EvolutionaryPsychology
Which countries emit the most greenhouse gases each…
Our World in DataWhilst folk argue & greenwash about climate change, or simply try to ignore the subject all together, they have missed the entire point of the debate.
There is a general solution! that sustains the important aspects of a modern way of life #futuregen
Start promoting with the aim of living the solution.
It's enough to make someone think that many people prefer climate virtue signalling on social media. Talking the talk, though are not quite as enthusiastic when it comes to walking the walk. #psychology
In #futuregen, Jane Davidson explains how, as Minister…
Jane DavidsonThe eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you. (GRETA THUNBERG, 2019 UN Climate Action Summit)
We hope that what #Wales does today, the world will do tomorrow. Action, more than words, is the hope for our current and future generations. (NIKHIL SETH, head of sustainable development, United Nations Development Programme)
#sustainability #book #climate #ClimateAction https://janedavidson.wales/press-and-reviews
What #wales is doing today, the world will do tomorrow.
The story of how one small nation responded to global climate issues by radically rethinking public policy for future generations
https://janedavidson.wales/book
‘A truly pioneering Act that puts sustainability at the heart of every governmental decision combined with a country seeking to reimagine itself – the story of this revolutionary engine for change holds enormous possibility and is a true beacon of hope.’ (MICHAEL SHEEN OBE, actor and UNICEF ambassador)
#sustainability #culture #climate #ecology #politics #economics #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAdaptation
In #futuregen, Jane Davidson explains how, as Minister…
Jane DavidsonWelcome to the first Wales Net Zero 2035 Challenge: How could Wales feed itself by 2035?
Can you help us?
https://netzero2035.wales