Instead of thinking about how the world goes wrong and what we should do to fix it (for an entirely virtual and agency free meaning of "we"), think about what is going to happen, and what is going to have been done to deal with that, and get a head start on this.
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That is not the only point: by convincing other people of deciding differently, I can induce change. Without me necessarily changing my own decision making. Ask Al Gore. I guess he's not personally suffering to save the planet.
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As a parent, my goal is not to induce my children to do intrinsically good things, but to model aspects of the world that might help them to decide what they consider to be the right thing to do. I suppose the same can happen on a global scale.
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I see I changed the audience. A critical component of your original message, which I also tend to agree with, is a call to action for individuals, and not populations. /1
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People tend to not act on appeals but on incentives.
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