We have a much higher standard of living than before industrialization (the time before fossil fuels) so cutting all use tomorrow would lead to a lot of issues.
One major drastic action we should take though is removing our subsidies for the fossil fuel industry because right now we subside them entirely too much for having to get away from them. We could instead put those subsidies towards renewable energy sources and swapping out energy consumption more towards electricity instead of directly fossil fuels (like natural gas heating for homes, etc)
And as is tradition for many things nowadays: distribution and access to services is one of the biggest hurdles. The resources that exist that could support everyone are not evenly distributed and to do so is not something that can be done without energy costs.
A great example distribution hurdles is clean water. We have more than enough clean drinking water for everyone currently alive but to get it to everyone is massive hurdle as there are parts of the world thousands of miles from clean and safe drinking water.
We have to have proper plans in place for moving to renewable energy otherwise things will go poorly. We should be doing more to make it happen faster though.
We should be dumping resources and money at this problem like the continuation of our species depends upon it, because it does.
Unfortunately through capitalism is the only way that we have
But the good news is that we don’t have unregulated capitalism so we have more of a means of actually doing something
We do have to put pressure on our politicians to achieve it though and unfortunately so many people have taken a “We’re doomed anyways so why bother” attitude which only benefits those who benefit from us doing nothing
We have a much higher standard of living than before industrialization (the time before fossil fuels) so cutting all use tomorrow would lead to a lot of issues.
One major drastic action we should take though is removing our subsidies for the fossil fuel industry because right now we subside them entirely too much for having to get away from them. We could instead put those subsidies towards renewable energy sources and swapping out energy consumption more towards electricity instead of directly fossil fuels (like natural gas heating for homes, etc)
And as is tradition for many things nowadays: distribution and access to services is one of the biggest hurdles. The resources that exist that could support everyone are not evenly distributed and to do so is not something that can be done without energy costs.
A great example distribution hurdles is clean water. We have more than enough clean drinking water for everyone currently alive but to get it to everyone is massive hurdle as there are parts of the world thousands of miles from clean and safe drinking water.
We have to have proper plans in place for moving to renewable energy otherwise things will go poorly. We should be doing more to make it happen faster though.
We should be dumping resources and money at this problem like the continuation of our species depends upon it, because it does.
Overnight for a human would correspond more closely to within a year for society, and that’s what I meant.
But I very much fear that even relatively drastic change through capitalism is still going to lead us to disaster.
Unfortunately through capitalism is the only way that we have
But the good news is that we don’t have unregulated capitalism so we have more of a means of actually doing something
We do have to put pressure on our politicians to achieve it though and unfortunately so many people have taken a “We’re doomed anyways so why bother” attitude which only benefits those who benefit from us doing nothing