interesting and not exactly encouraging survey and the guardian is going with the whole "look at these selfish and irresponsible plebs", but the big thing i take from it is mostly that climate messaging has been so terrible that nobody knows what the fuck to do, everyone is sceptical of the personal responsibility bullshit, and the most highly-rated thing is that people just want some fucking leadership on this (interesting that there were very few questions on what government/industry should be doing, i wonder why)

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    This assumes that "Lifestyle" is something that an individual has any real power over. Usually when you ask if someone is willing to "change" their lifestyle for the climate it means "Are you willing to live the life you are just without X." Like as an American I would never, in isolation, give up my car because to do so is basically to render yourself a non person in our society. Now if I had better choices that allowed me to live a full life without my car I would jump on it in a second. Like our lifestyles are largely outside of our hands as the products and choices provided to us are done so to maximize profit not to maximize use value or our happiness.

    Like think about food, it is almost impossible to find healthy food options that you don't make yourself that are less than 500 calories. The pat answer that libs give for this is "Well if enough people demand X in the market place then the market will provide because that is where the sales are!" But that ignores the giant chain of value production of which the act of consumption is only the tail end. It also ignores the fact that largely our tastes are formed by the consumptive choices we are presented with. A good example of this is the popularity of turkey tails in American Samoa.