I am what many would consider to be a radical left-wing environmentalist (although I prefer not to put myself in any too-easily labeled box). But although the current global warming "hooplah" has succeeded in significantly changing a lot of things (for example, advertising campaigns for oil companies and the rhetoric for anyone who wants to be elected to an office), I have continually failed to see any real change in our collective and individual perceptions of how "the way of life" in most developed countries is profoundly anti-environmental and damaging to local and global ecosystems.
The gist of what I'm saying is that "the global warming camp" has become a bandwagon, and as often happens with bandwagons, everyone has jumped on so quickly and is now making so much noise that WE CAN'T HEAR THE BAND ANYMORE, the band that is telling us that in order to truly stop the massive damage we're doing to the environment, we need to rethink and re-adapt some of the fundamental aspects of our lifestyles: how we think about waste and consumption, how we design our products, how we transport those same products and ourselves, how we secure our food, how we build our homes, how we regulate energy usage et cetera.
Instead, we have politicians throwing blame around, news reports hyping doomsday theories, and a whole lot of people making money on their global warming books (printed on paper of course) and their global warming speeches (they fly from speech to speech of course), while meanwhile the United Nations FLIES EVERYONE TO BALI on private jets and loads them up in limos at the airport for their high-falutin' CLIMATE CONFERENCE... anyone see what I'm getting at here?
Instead of doing what needs to be done, and using this "climate crisis" to force fundamental change and save ourselves from the upcoming oil crisis and our terrifyingly destructive system of consumerist hedonism, we've merely changed the title of the book, not re-written anything. So now we can all buy our anti-global warming t-shirts, and get in our SUVs to drive to the climate protest, and yell and shout about how the government needs to regulate the pollution of big business while we continue to mindlessly and wastefully consume their products. In two words, Ignorance and Hypocrisy.
Does anyone share my sentiments, or have some insights to share that might alleviate my hopelessly negative view of the situation?
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