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Originally Posted by #-3
That's actually exactly the problem I'm talking about. it's not the fault of Albertans or New Yorkers. It a system problem that need to be addressed with mass cooperative action. Blame any individual for following the incentives laid out before them is a category error.
The problem here is people feeling they're lifes work cannot be judged retrospectively as having harmed the world around them, so they put blinders on the fires burning around them. And since this is a problem that can only be addressed with collective action, having people with their blinders on undermines everything.
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For the most part, humans are terrible at thinking about large complex problems, especially those that exceed their lifetime. Much of what we know is experiential, so if we have not personally experienced something we are skeptical of the effects of something. We can empathize, but when it comes to having understanding and a belief is the effects of something, we more often than not have to experience it ourselves. That is another thing that makes climate change so hard for people to grapple with. They don't experience or observe the changes around them from a global perspective, they only have that local or regional experience to fall back on. That is why so many rely on their experience with weather and conflate that as proof of climate change's existence. Its part of being human and one of weaknesses as a species.