This is intended for those who accept scientific consensus, follow accurate reporting and the anecdotal evidence of their own observations.
The Homeland is and has been a major contributor to our unfolding climate catastrophe. Yet we are unable to mount any substantively effective responses.
The reasons for this failure are hidden in plain sight.
Example 1
Personal and commercial internal combustion engines (ICE) are significant contributors to the the problem. A system of alternate driving days is never considered even though the initial effect would be immediate and easily predictable knock on effects profound. Citizens would rather kill future generations to avoid any hint of personal inconvenience.
Example 2
Ubiquitous use of plastics is a global problem not only in terms of waste but the fact micro plastics are found from the seas to the rain to the land and everywhere in between. The entire water cycle is polluted by industrial waste the long term consequences of which are just being identified. Citizens are subjected to this petro pollution merely because it is profitable in a market system in which we effectively have no say as the profit of a fee overrides the health of most.
Each example illustrates fundamental issues creating our consistent failure
In the first case Citizens are effectively conditioned to make private consumption and supposed convenience paramount regardless of easily recognized consequences
In the second case Citizens are denied any say much less agency in determining if the rights claimed by a manifestly absurd "market strategy” even exist to the point no change much less assignment of responsibility is effectively possible.
The concerned among us can continue to list myriad examples in either or both categories. But that is not the point
Each example demonstrates basic assumptions of our status quo. Each represents a radical shift from relatively recent previous times in how we view ourselves individually and as a nation.
What many deny today despite all evidence to the contrary is the current status quo is simply a suicide pact for our nation and beyond.
Citizens are assured there are no alternatives to business as usual not because it is true but because the are so obvious and often simple.
It is merely a lie for which those who follow us will pay the price.