My thoughts on the subject of collapse after reading about it the last few months

Posted by md54short@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 54 comments

We all know oil is at the heart of the problem. The thing is though stopping oil or even dramatically cutting back would entail asking people to buy less, drive less, heat their houses less, potentially eat less or at least eat different than they do today. I just don't ever see American's agreeing to do that or any politician ever asking for it let alone getting it passed. Let just say in some magical world though all Americans agreed to less to help stop climate change, if the rest of the world doesn't follow suit it wouldn't really matter. Oil would just now be cheaper for them and they would consume more. We really need one world government to more equally distribute goods and services and for most Americans today that would mean less but for say the majority of Africans it would mean more. All of this is just a pipe dream though and we're totally effed. To further elaborate we use to much of the earths resources and the only real answer is to use less but using less does mean a low standard of at least material well being for most in the western world. People will never accept that. Governments will never agree to that. Plus according to game theory if one group does accept it and tries to lead by example they end up the losers. We need a collective conscious spanning all humans across the globe but our brains don't work like that. People have also become really entitled. What they say they now "need" has just gotten to be more and more. Corporate greed and and greed of the rich is the greatest and the worst but in someway we're all greedy and all responsible and for the most part if you try to be shining light of change you just end up suffering in isolation.