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

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2. Short term thinking vs. Lonng term thinking

Either way, we're stuck. In the short term, obviously it helps us today, but it will come at a cost at some point down the road, because it always has, but we've managed to get where we're at, which means we've continued, time after time, to find ways around the stop sign. In the long term, we have to give something up today, which is a competitive disadvantage. Some Native Americans may have had the 7 generation idea, but where are they today? Exactly.

Short term, long term, it all works until it no longer works.

As the article says, why should we not be able to just simply go about our lives how we want? I think if you went deeper into that question, that would open up a different discussion, which could go in all sorts of directions.