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

Moral grandstanding - To grandstand is to turn one's contribution to public discourse into a vanity project. 🔓 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/papa.12075

#misinfromation #MoralGrandstanding #virtuesignaling

Multi-choice vote. Which option is more true?

(1) The tobacco industry knows that it's products are harmful to human health - they sell & promote tobacco anyway.

(2) The Fossil fuel industry knows that it's products are harmful to human health & the environment - they sell & promote fossil fuels anyway.

(3)The governments knows that fossil fuels are harmful to human health & the environment - many governments, some more than others, invest in & promote fossil fuels anyway.

(4) Many adults know that burning fuels is harmful to human health & the environment - they don't feel it's wrong burning fuels anyway

#science #reality #psychology #ecology #climate #unsustainable #behaviours #MoralGrandstanding #FossilFuel #burning #BehaviouralPsychology

#ClimateAction #SustainableAction #CleanAir

Why do the majority of adults go "blah blah blah" about the environmental science subject's?

#Science #psychology #money #vehicles #WoodStoves #aviation #FuelBurners #bias #ConfirmationBias #MoralGrandstanding #VirtueSignaling #insincere #language #climate #climatology #ecology #democracy #voting

“It would be wrong for us to ignore the unearned #privilege that exists in #Nodejs. Much of the project leadership is #white, and a majority are men. We are and have been systematically complicit in perpetuating the issues that led us to where we are.”
https://nodejs.org/en/black-lives-matter/

#BLM #MoralGrandstanding #CollectiveGuilt #software #JS
https://www.econlib.org/the-illogic-of-collective-guilt/