and then?
oo1
joined 2 years ago
Their "own interests"
this is a key phrase here for me.
Once a person has a modest amount; is it in their interests to eat more and get fat, or to live in a place where other people share in having a modest amount, or, at least have a fair oppotunity to get a modest amount.
A person's morality will influence the scope of their concept of "own interests".
And therefore how much they want beyond meeting their "own basic needs" before they start caring more about neighbours with unfulfilled "basic needs".
I don't really know how oil corps are going to be "held to account" at an international level in any effective way. Who is going to do what to them? for how long? with what mandate? Edward Norton with some home made soap?
Oil/coal corps seem to be better at creating laws for the benefit of them than democratic processes are for the benefit of people. Even in countries that they don't operate in (especially if they want to operate there).
I think underlying it all is a prisoners dilemma / tragedy of commons type situation - co-operative solutions can sometimes emerge and even persist, but they can be unstable or easier to destabilise than would be nice. Coupled with a large power imbalance (since wars, military and oil are all quite closely related).
If a person can reduce the amount of fossil fuels they use directly and indirectly, or modify their lifestyle / environment to use less of it, then that might be their best (only) method to actually erode their power (however slightly).
I think I'd quite like to try out a society that praised things like humility, modesty, selflessness
and vilified things like, gluttony, vanity. envy, pride, greed.
I'm not sure where i'm going to find one of those - it'd probably get attacked by some international agency that claims to have intelligence.
yeah aforementioned driver has just swapped mode for (part of )a journey.
If only someone could invent a more permanent parking obstacle to put there . Maybe out of something like bricks and mortar. Maybe one of those newfangled piles of brick could get visited frequently by giant long car like things with more capacity to move people around.
you're goin' home in a bsod!
if it was a Right Whale then by all accounts, it'd take it as a come on.
they're lovers not fighters.
ew, i dont want to touch one of thoser with my bare hands though.
i 'd avoid the vole, i had pet rats.
if an enraged rodent decides to use it's infinitely regowing incisor powers on you, you're gonna bleed.
you're applying logic.
you're not the target audience.
duck billed platypus
and don't take out the bike lane because " no one uses it" and/or "we used to be able to go murder speed along there".