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Activists just don't get it. The shit has *completely* hit the fan, politically speaking. Just wreckage. Technology is eating away at the fabric of society at an unbelievable rate. Future shock is here. And you think *politicians* are going to fix this? Or consumer choice? Ya

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There are a string of reasons: - I lack the relevant technical expertise. - I had to shore up a lot of personal problems first - My contribution would inevitably be minor But with problems this scale, we need millions of people doing *something* to gain any traction at all.

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Problems like this too big for the human mind. Everything breaks down as the little network fails to comprehend the scale. I'm guessing I've been thinking about this wrong: realistically, most of us will do little. But if you can solve a real problem, even a minor one, do so.

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Not really sure how, if any way at all, an eclectic background in linguistics and psychology can be related to these problems. Maybe they can't, maybe they can. Probably best to find out. And if not, best to do something that could.

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Fighting for your country is a lame reason to join a war, but just about everyone who goes voluntarily and isn't a psychopath has some simpler goal. Climate change will dwarf those concerns a thousand times over for the vast majority of us. It isn't even remotely close.

I have to agree with Vinay's statement that this is a technical problem, not a political problem. Activism is very likely not the way. Conversely, technical problems don't begin and end with technical issues. There are vast networks of support structures that need tending, too.

Without access to the right resources, I probably will not have any personal ability to do any technical work on this for a long while. I imagine that's true for a lot of people. But there are probably more useful forms of engagement than shouting into the void. Time to think.