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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 that 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 that could detect when it was undergoing an emissions test and altering the performance to reduce the emissions level. | 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 that 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 that could detect when it was undergoing an emissions test and altering the performance to reduce the emissions level. | ||
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''Through movies we have been taught that evil comes from those that are easily recognisable. Unfortunately, there is no Darth Vader like villian for us to blame the issue is [[emergent]] of the system. No one is in control of large complex global systems. It is not the evil rich or evil corporations driving us to collapse. It is the ever-evolving systems in which we all participate and which no one influences enough to change direction in any coherent and sustained way that determine our trajectory to collapse. For instance, often | ''Through movies we have been taught that evil comes from those that are easily recognisable. Unfortunately, there is no Darth Vader like villian for us to blame the issue is [[emergent]] of the system. No one is in control of large complex global systems. It is not the evil rich or evil corporations driving us to collapse. It is the ever-evolving systems in which we all participate and which no one influences enough to change direction in any coherent and sustained way that determine our trajectory to collapse. For instance, businesses often behave as if there are limited externalities to profit although 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions''<ref>Carbon Majors Report - https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240</ref>. You would think knowing this the humane response would be to put in place more empathetic people to reduce these issues which affect everyone on the planet, however the opposite is in place. The system as it stands ''promotes people with a high degree of narcissism 29% faster in their career progression to the position of CEO than any other trait''<ref>The Leadership Quarterly: The perks of narcissism: Behaving like a star speeds up career advancement to the CEO position. Published June 2021 via <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101489</nowiki></ref>''.'' | ||
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