/lit/ - Literature

Science isn't the problem, it's always self-interest and apathy. We could easily have stopped climate change with the scientific understandings we have in 2019, but it's too easy to just continue living our lives as normal. I don't blame anyone, even the companies in the beef industry, someone else would just rise up in their place if they stopped destroying the environment.

As a population we've got too much self-interest to affect any real change. Americans refused to work in the conditions third-worlders will work in, so the work went there. Unless they also refuse to work those conditions, the situation won't improve. In an ideal world no one would accept that, but in reality there are plenty of people who work in almost slave conditions because if they don't someone else will take that job and they will starve.

Apathy and Self-Interest, not Science.