The Guardian: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change and what to do about it

[Nihil]

1. That's an excellent article - thanks!

> I can safely predict that the leaders gathering in New York will stress the urgent need
> to control greenhouse gases but remain mute about the $1tn a year spent bringing
> yet more fossil fuel reserves into production.
> In 25 years of negotiations, no measure to control fossil fuel production has ever been
> discussed. It does not exist anywhere in the official narrative.

This is the elephant in the politico-diplomatic room.

The "decision-makers" who attend these self-serving PR talking shops are completely owned
by the fossil fuel industry and are easily manipulated to use the (closely-tied) military industrial
complex to progress the goals of the fossil fuel industry.

Dumb monkeys with everything from guns to nuclear weapons but no fucking perspective.


There was also a good summary in one of the comments:
>> We also don't deal well with big numbers, and big numbers of people.
>> Without very direct pressure - the word "war" comes to mind! - we don't co-operate very well.
>> We're smart monkeys who evolved to deal with events over a few years,
>> with distances of a few miles and with (at most) a few hundred people.