RE: This from the California Tourism Board.
September 12, 2020 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2020 at 5:17 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 12, 2020 at 12:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Just to be clear, I’m not saying that climate change doesn’t make wildfires worse. It’s plain that it does. I’m saying that the fossil fuel industry doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Boru
To reverse a collective self-destructive habit, it is often necessary to scapegoat the player most responsible for worsening the situation or most effective in resisting collective correction.
Justice, and promptness and effectiveness in reversing collective self destructiveness, are often not only not the same thing, but demand mutually incompatible actions.
different societies at different times in history have different degrees of capability to undertake reasoned, informed collective action for the collective good. some societies are more able to weigh the collective good heavily, and adapt their actions and outlooks to collectively achieve it. others needs the impetus of a scapegoat or tangible enemy to even be pursuaded to try.
the right wing in the US has spent 60 years perversely painting any reasoned and informed collective action for the collective good as “socialism”, and vilifying any who would demand sacrifices of them to more of the others can partake in the collective good. so it is now at a point where necessary collective action is difficult to initiate, to say nothing of being to fruition, without scapegoating.
brian may or may not be aware other people are responsible. but vilianizing ans scapegoating a narrow range of industries that profited mightily from get us to the precipice of the abyss is probably necessary to preventing us from falling in.