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On the human level, people won't as capitalism is so deeply ingrained in our culture, do you drive? Stop driving you can't because you have work that's in the next town over? Get a job that's closer? Stop buying non seasonal goods from your local supermarket? Stop buying random shit with air miles on it.
We can all make these changes but people won't because our monkey brains seek the fastest root to serotonin therefore government must harshly regulate at the corporate level. Build infrastructure at the civil level.
"Harshly regulate" indeed. Governments the world over subsidise fossil fuel and multinational corpos. If they just redirected that investment towards local business and low-carbon energy and transport, we'd have a lot more carrot than stick to drive change.
A world where everyone does the best they can to avoid and/or fight against bad systems is absolutely the ONLY POSSIBLE WORLD where positive change can happen.
How else would the world change if not through individuals choosing to do the right thing? Are really expecting the same people that have fucked us(rich/politicians) to spontaneously develop a conscience and change the world out of the goodness of their hearts?
Before you bring up guillotines, those ALSO require individuals to make personal choices and changes and take risks.
Have you spoken to people in your life/work about this. Words are cheap and most people will agree but they still continue to buy from Amazon, they still shop from food places that import foods, they still buy the newest cars.
But you are right that social change isn't impossible and more and more people are becoming aware that they must make personal change.
I disagree that politicians are incapable of doing good, I'm not in america so things are different not to say they're all good but there are MPs that try like my local, she's helping me in setting up community gardens.
I agree, and I think you're even perhaps being a bit harsh, people can do things, but a lot of the time it's so impractical as to not be worth considering. In a car based society it can be almost impossible to forego a car. And I certainly don't blame anyone for doing what they need to survive or even just live comfortably.
The only thing I have an issue with is people who otherwise could, choosing inaction because 'corporations'. Corporations are almost 100% to blame, political parties being able to take bribes/donations is one of the biggest failings of modern society and has led to so much harm it's almost unfathomable. But I still don't accept that as an excuse to do nothing, corporations and politicians aren't going to change otherwise.
100%, I don't blame the person I blame the society and the one where in focuses on importing foods and goods, chewing through fossil fuels, and we don't get to choose where our energy comes from, we don't get to choose where our foods come from. Company's even set up campaigns to put the blame on the users like carbon foot print was made by shell to shift the blame to the consumer.