The general long-term (lifestyle \ culture) solutions to transition & adapt human behaviors (activities) away from an ecologically damaging, climate-changing civilization towards an ecological & climate-sustaining civilization are known. https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
Business As Usual (BAU) tries to continue by generally doing more of the same (BAU is "baked" into the BAU economy & those that only think in BAU terms). For example, BAU is promoting more mining for resources which means more damage to nature (wildlife habitats) and more pollution.
BAU owns land that BAU doesn't want to use for nature restoration.
This means that BAU will continue to not meet its own BAU greenhouse gas reduction targets (BAU's aim is crap as it keeps missing climate-related targets).
Because BAU has generally done a less-than-crap Job at reducing the BAU greenhouse gas emissions (because BAU emissions are rising https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions), BAU is now planning for a future where the effects of climate change are much worse. BAU won't stop BAU so BAU is trying to adapt to climate change by doing more BAU (that makes "sense" for BAU). For example, BAU is about using more resources and power (e.g., burning more "fossil" fuels) to construct higher flood defenses. Basically, BAU is about exploiting nature so as to extract resources and power BAU technologies (& make tech BAU folk rich by selling BAU products).
So, as BAU continues to degrade nature in the name of BAU (e.g., promoting & sell more BAU products & services), more people will come to realize that BAU is the problem. We can't solve a problem by doing more of the BAU problem (but problems make BAU people money...so, go figure).
When more people accept that BAU is the problem, then, and only then, will more people think about the real solutions to prevent humans from damaging #nature, therefore, changing the #climate. In other words, scale down BAU before it's too late to prevent the worst climate impacts https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
When it's clear that BAU is failing to mitigate climate change (what will that take?) - because climate change is causing more harm to people's lives. When it's clear that BAU is the cause of climate change, then humans will change BAU.
The Planet's climate doesn't consider what we want. It will show what we can't have and that's a BAU ( #economy \ #politics ) that's damaging and polluting nature as friggin usual.
#business #economic #psychology #sustainabilty #ecology #nature #wildlife #CarbonSequestration #reforetration #PeatLands
