Your trusted inner circle is one of the most potent and overlooked weapons to stave off the worst of climate change. Our individual actions appear small, but they act as billboards for others looking for cues on what to do in their own lives. These social comparisons can add up.
Is there a surprisingly simple way to convince billionaires and corporations to stop polluting the planet and end their over use of fossil fuels?
Holding them accountable for their actions in a meaningful way.
Yeah you just have to be part of their inner circle first. Oh whats that? You’re a poor? Nope they’re not gonna listen to you.
The only way I can see us stopping fossil fuels is to introduce a global levy on its extraction. It doubles every year and the proceeds are allocated to climate change mitigation projects.
Yeah, this is one of those, “you have the power” distraction pieces.
Probably true, so maybe we need more tools (part of fediverse ?) to show this adding up, for individual motivation (a bit like those old chain-emails with feedback?).
On the other hand simple social-gratification tags like #flyless really bug me, because some of us have tried not-flying for decades.
