Time for Change.
Hey thanks for coming, I need your help. We may share in the belief that immediate reform is necessary to address the climate crisis however we need to also keep in mind direct protest might not work. As such I have made this site to help compile an idea about how we might take a different tact and help formulate a way we can quietly nudge aspects of our society away from collapse.
____
This site has been created in the format of a Wiki (much the same format as Wikipedia) to log and clarify some ideas about how these nudges might be done. As such I commit to reference any facts stated to robust regulated scientific papers, however, never the less this site will contain errors large and small. If you find a meaningful factual error, please register on this site and correct it. 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.
Summary
Society has a big problem. We approaching a climate crisis, however, the majority of us are convinced that we can adopt better consumption patterns to fix the problem. Whilst admirable, recycling plastics or paying charities to reduce people's use of firewood is doing a disservice to the cause. By greenwashing ourselves it temporarily relieves the anxiety intended for a much bigger problem. This website serves as log of an expedition 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 ---->