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This post may contain errors large and small, if you find a meaningful factual error, I will correct it, and pay you $10. If you find typos, please let me know but I do not think I will pay you for those. Overall, please let me know either record a voice message below or type on the cryptopad, it is all anonymous. any feedback or suggestions on how I could make this more useful! This is a developing article, if you have time please give me some feedback. | |||
----''Society has a big problem. We all know there is a climate crisis, however, many of us are convinced that we can adopt better consumption patterns to fix the problem. This is admirable, however, whether the action is recycling plastics or paying charities to reduce people's use of firewood in the Third World. However, it is doing a disservice to the cause as it relieves ecological anxiety for those who could do something more effective. This website serves as log of an experiment to find something better.'' | |||
In healthcare, when someone has a stomach ache, you can quickly ''treat'' it by going to a pharmacy. The pharmacist can address the immediate problem, indigestion = antacids, diarrhoea = loperamide, pain = analgesics. However whilst the acute symptoms may subside, you have just removed a key bodily warning system which might remind you that something more serious is wrong. The same is to say with our actions to save the environment, whilst well-meaning, not using plastic straws only helps relieve a symptom of a much larger problem. The science of third parties trying to convince you of these facts is not nefarious, there's no James Bond villain stroking his white cat. Its simply that we are living in a society which bases its success on profit. A classic example of greenwashing is when Volkswagen admitted to cheating emissions tests by fitting various vehicles with a “defect” device, with software which could detect when it was undergoing an emissions test and altering the performance to reduce the emissions level. | |||
To resolve this we must look upstream ----> | |||
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This post may contain errors large and small, if you find a meaningful factual error, I will correct it, and pay you $10. If you find typos, please let me know but I do not think I will pay you for those. Overall, please let me know either record a voice message below or type on the cryptopad, it is all anonymous. any feedback or suggestions on how I could make this more useful! This is a developing article, if you have time please give me some feedback.
Society has a big problem. We all know there is a climate crisis, however, many of us are convinced that we can adopt better consumption patterns to fix the problem. This is admirable, however, whether the action is recycling plastics or paying charities to reduce people's use of firewood in the Third World. However, it is doing a disservice to the cause as it relieves ecological anxiety for those who could do something more effective. This website serves as log of an experiment to find something better.
In healthcare, when someone has a stomach ache, you can quickly treat it by going to a pharmacy. The pharmacist can address the immediate problem, indigestion = antacids, diarrhoea = loperamide, pain = analgesics. However whilst the acute symptoms may subside, you have just removed a key bodily warning system which might remind you that something more serious is wrong. The same is to say with our actions to save the environment, whilst well-meaning, not using plastic straws only helps relieve a symptom of a much larger problem. The science of third parties trying to convince you of these facts is not nefarious, there's no James Bond villain stroking his white cat. Its simply that we are living in a society which bases its success on profit. A classic example of greenwashing is when Volkswagen admitted to cheating emissions tests by fitting various vehicles with a “defect” device, with software which could detect when it was undergoing an emissions test and altering the performance to reduce the emissions level.
To resolve this we must look upstream ---->