Conservationism was historically driven by concern for charismatic megafauna (whales, lions, elephants)
Humanism was historically driven by horror at charismatic megavillains (Hitler, Stalin, Mao)
Climate action (!=environmentalism) will be driven by charismatic megadisasters
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Are you following the Cape Town water crisis? City of 4m about to completely run out of water (ie taps dry) due to savage multi-year drought.
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So far taps still on so it varies: conserving, stockpiling, putting in own infrastructure etc.
Reasonable chance it will be a “charismatic” catastrophe - default plan is that 1m households will have to queue daily for water rations:
timeslive.co.za/news/south-afr
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