If directed at me, no - sadly no.
Just physically sickened, finding the same people that promoted low innovation in the west, globalized expansion, and low wages all over the world to 'eradicate poverty', now effing lying (and I read microexpressions like a mofo, they know what they are doing in crafting and spewing a propaganda message, giving each other kudos for storytelling - to essentially reach the following outcomes:
- promote a little higher innovation load, but with risk shifted to the public, because large energy companies arent stupid enough to invest early
- promote effing suffering and consumption and living standards reduction on part of the developed world, which is ABSOLUTELY in line with the 'lower all wages' of the past, you know - to eradicate poverty by letting more people participate - just without the benefits globalization brought in the past. But dont you worry, there are new ones, like religious fulfillment of the self.
- globalized PR efforts, where people are payed to brainwash a youth to reach one goal, and one goal only - have politicians act against peoples short term interest, and in the interest of 'the next generation' (fuck millenials), payed for by the UN and sponsors, but thats really not much to talk about, if you are a crazy religious bigot who can be convinced to preach 'sustainability' you now get your costs covered, thats not that much of a monetary investment.
On top of that - continuing the age old game of "have the rich folks in society spend a mittens on feigning humanity - via financing 'art and lighthouse projects', retaining most of their investment - if internationally spread, reduce most of their risk - and getting public appraisal for, essentially founding cults and longterm investment. No risk, no opportunities anywhere to be founded - structurally.
Continuing the age old game of promoting some craze (in this case, good or needed for humanitys future), as an effing job generator, and 'a new opportunity for the masses', knowing perfectly well, that you want to prep up most of those efforts by shifting subsidies, into an industry - where as a total result productivity costs are hiked up. So more people loose jobs. Loose cars. Loose their effing weekly steak. But then - the sustainability benefit - and beans are yummy.
Continuing the effort of giving an opportunity to people that can brainwash best, and have no morals, trying to spin those efforts. Benefinting freaking boomers most, because not only can they consume all they want, create fewer children than they needed for care at an older age (productivity wise), create effing financial crisis, and as a result economic environments, where investment risk in the west is so high, everyone is more interested in share buybacks -- THEN effing tell their children to live a little less, for the benefit of the world, and their own.
Continuing the age old effort of finding fake, virtual metrics, that have nothing to do with the betterment of an individuals life, and promoting virtual friends, VR vacations, service economy, virtual business models (where no physical goods are shifted, just something is copied for distribution), as alternatives. Building metrics around that - and trying to make them seem as 'worth following' - when assessing quality of life.
Better have the tech ready to stupify people in masses early enough, when you sell them a worse ("but more fulfilling potentiallyTM) life.
And again - ALL of that to keep the globalized investor classes lifestyle stable. Oh, and the earth more conducive to human living needs.
There is everything wrong with this, on every level, on every approach, in implementation. You lie to people, you try to have them follow religious causes, you try to get their money for high risk low return investments, you fuck a generation, you absolutely manipulate trajectories and outlooks - but as an already well off person, you loose nothing, absolutely nothing - while doing so. (Because you can pay a little more to maintain your lifestyle, others cant.)
So me for my part - I'll fight until I'm in my grave, to have this message, right alongside with the 'climate - its good for the children' message, every step of the way.
Oh, and I was raised by someone very much into the green and sustainable ethos, I worked at small scale family farm during my summers. And I've experienced every inch on this way, how the society you built absolutely hated and despised people with that lets call it 'inner conviction' talked behind their back, laughed about them, rolled their eyes.
But now - just like magick, the next fringe group as about due for center stage, to have another excuse to lower peoples states of living.
The two most important factors currently? Getting efficiency up, and waste down - because thats the easy stuff, if you cant do that - real increases in cost to have companies retract from fossile energy are so much harder, they are unthinkable.
About as unthinkable as circular economies, right about today (who are we kidding, this is about allocations of goods shifting to different economies, because they are now able to pay as well).
And you do all of that, knowing its a lie, featuring the people who will effing suffer least in highfalutin panels, displaying their effing need to 'feel better than the rest' (because they are the ones that _really_ care (about society in 200 years)), lying into camera - producing the most disgusting PR possible (black is white, and consumer will is not only the base of politics, but also the demand, you first create to later say - isnt it great, its finally there, not at scale - but early adopters paying more, will also do for a while, influencing national politics financed from the international level)) -- but all of that, is absolutely fine and needed, because its without an alternative.
So young people - please just do the obvious here, and sell out to those interests. Because thats the way to become something in life. Alternative, app based food delivery honcho in the service economy.
F****ck.
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