Rupert Read on the Meta-Failure of Our Civilisation | The Building Bridges Summit | Geneva

[@emceegreen8864]

If you’ve read The Ministry for the Future you’d see how the hope for the future is a restoration economy measured and rewarded by positive action. The policy is called the Global Carbon Reward. Developed by Dr Delton Chen it’s introduced in Chapter 42. What are we waiting for?

[@A3Kr0n]

I thought we were going to rise to the challenge during the pandemic. A non-human enemy we could fight together without bias, but the opposite happened.

[@SamWilkinsonn]

We don't stand a chance under 🧢-italism. With a bit of luck something transmittable will take the vast majority of the population out too. All luxuries would have to be strictly rationed, all non-essential jobs discontinued, non-essential travel using fuel banned, mostly vegan diet enforced, etc. but you know as well as I that people would rather go extinct. In a parallel universe, if I had the ability to enforce the changes, I would in a heartbeat. Label me an ecofascist idc.

[@ritornelloandrefrain]

Here in the U.S,. Trump & MAGA simply used the pandemic to further polarize the populace, eroding trust in government & democracy, and thereby inflaming their base.

[@otoulapan]

We are past 3c now.This is the fastest extinction in world history!

[@kimwelch4652]

Adaptability is inversely proportional to the level of specific adaptation. We are very highly adapted to environments that are rapidly disappearing or becoming unsustainable and until we can surrender our current adaptations we will have no capacity to adapt to the new situation. Experience suggests we will not give up those adaptations until forced to by direct necessity. The whole point of a civilization is stability and it resists change until collapse.

[@russtaylor2122]

Oh god. Whenever i hear the word 'investment' in green issues, my shoulders slump. Investment obviously implies a profit motive. It didn't always. It used to mean taking a (calculated) risk. These days it means guaranteed profit by multinationals...