Sure there is good and evil in all of us, but the point of living in a global society is to integrate the feedback received from others and hopefully become less evil in whatever we have done bad in.
Ignoring the feedback is at the very least behaving like the villain - if we want to shy away from ascribing such potentially reductive labels.
Who’s feedback? Don’t forget, most people (here and around the world) prefer wealth over conservation, and it’s not close. The carbon tax had to be rolled back because it was massively unpopular and people wanted to burn gas for free. Other countries never put one in in the first place!
OP seems like the kind of person who likes to reduce the world to a binary, and is working backwards from that. Their “evidence”, as a result, was basically just a collection of random stuff. If you actually look at our climate record vs. what our choices were in the first place, with no cherry-picking, we come out looking pretty green.
If you want to ask if we mostly do good or bad as a country in general, it’s of course a much larger discussion. A good portion of Lemmy thinks North Korea is somehow great, after all (speaking of defying global feedback).
Villains belong in stories; real life is shades of gray.
There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.
Sure there is good and evil in all of us, but the point of living in a global society is to integrate the feedback received from others and hopefully become less evil in whatever we have done bad in.
Ignoring the feedback is at the very least behaving like the villain - if we want to shy away from ascribing such potentially reductive labels.
Who’s feedback? Don’t forget, most people (here and around the world) prefer wealth over conservation, and it’s not close. The carbon tax had to be rolled back because it was massively unpopular and people wanted to burn gas for free. Other countries never put one in in the first place!
OP seems like the kind of person who likes to reduce the world to a binary, and is working backwards from that. Their “evidence”, as a result, was basically just a collection of random stuff. If you actually look at our climate record vs. what our choices were in the first place, with no cherry-picking, we come out looking pretty green.
If you want to ask if we mostly do good or bad as a country in general, it’s of course a much larger discussion. A good portion of Lemmy thinks North Korea is somehow great, after all (speaking of defying global feedback).