I think the analogy could be extended a bit- the drunk looking for his keys has a 50 billion dollar NGO budget and he has hired an army of consultants and built a gigantic array of very expensive high powered microscopes to search under the street light. All involved are convinced that finding the key will take just a little more effort. None of them can fathom that getting paid to keep searching in the same place could be part of the problem…
Sadly, the few places I do tend to see the 3rd world issue acknowledged seriously are almost exclusively by the disturbing anti-natalist types who are 100% on board with the idea that the fastest way to reduce emissions is to reduce population. They seem pretty comfortable filing dying of heat, dying of cold, dying of famine, etc under "natural causes" rather than "genocide", even if it's their policies driving up the death toll.
Brutally honest article but will never be broadly accepted because acceptance would diminish the power of the current elite. But thanks for this thin beam of light.
I'm not as pessimistic. Our elites aren't that strategic. They're mostly lazily well-intentioned.
Eventually, when a critical mass of awareness of a given reality builds, they end up switching en masse. It's just a slog building that critical mass...
Yeah, but in my experience outside the elite people have a much better understanding of things like this (you just don’t hear from them because they keep their traps shut). So have a little hope… the current people running all of the important institutions in the world are wildly unpopular and our institutions aren’t really fit for purpose anymore. There is going to be a lot of tumult and opportunities to rebuild things in the next 30-50 years!
I think the analogy could be extended a bit- the drunk looking for his keys has a 50 billion dollar NGO budget and he has hired an army of consultants and built a gigantic array of very expensive high powered microscopes to search under the street light. All involved are convinced that finding the key will take just a little more effort. None of them can fathom that getting paid to keep searching in the same place could be part of the problem…
I like it!
Sadly, the few places I do tend to see the 3rd world issue acknowledged seriously are almost exclusively by the disturbing anti-natalist types who are 100% on board with the idea that the fastest way to reduce emissions is to reduce population. They seem pretty comfortable filing dying of heat, dying of cold, dying of famine, etc under "natural causes" rather than "genocide", even if it's their policies driving up the death toll.
Brutally honest article but will never be broadly accepted because acceptance would diminish the power of the current elite. But thanks for this thin beam of light.
I'm not as pessimistic. Our elites aren't that strategic. They're mostly lazily well-intentioned.
Eventually, when a critical mass of awareness of a given reality builds, they end up switching en masse. It's just a slog building that critical mass...
Yeah, but in my experience outside the elite people have a much better understanding of things like this (you just don’t hear from them because they keep their traps shut). So have a little hope… the current people running all of the important institutions in the world are wildly unpopular and our institutions aren’t really fit for purpose anymore. There is going to be a lot of tumult and opportunities to rebuild things in the next 30-50 years!