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What you are or aren't deserving of is a distraction from what you are or aren't capable of creating. "Reduce!" is the rallying cry of a people who believe themselves unable to produce.
For every popular book on the climate crisis, why isn't there a popular book on the basics of chemistry pertaining to the atmosphere? For every MOOC on climate justice, why isn't there a MOOC on materials science for cleaner energy?
Self-loathing is the path of least resistance for a trained-complacent population. Why is there so much coverage for what people sacrifice — kids, life-extension — & so little re: anyone going nose-to-grindstone, actually trying to solve the problem they say they care about most?
Why is there so much more apparent social reward for screaming "DO SOMETHING!" than... doing something?
We make fun of people with "crazy" ideas, criticize every feasible weakness when they start to work. But we're silent on people with no ideas at all and no demonstrable willingness to pursue them, and straight-up doting when they apologize for consuming calories and kilowatts
There actually are books on these topics (not popular tho), in the Bill Gates NFLX doc they interview this guy named Vaclav Smil who has written a bunch of these books You may find his work interesting:https://www.amazon.com/Vaclav-Smil/e/B001HCXT62 …
That's a good point. I wonder how much social media influences/incentivises this. From a purely greedy POV, being the person shouting "we gotta do something" is more profitable than being the one trying to figure out what would that something be.
Here's a piece of the latter: https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/biobased-products-for-a-sustainable-bio-economy/ … Some halfway decent circular economy courses there too.
More relevant to the former... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-84j-atmospheric-chemistry-fall-2013/ … Facts abound.
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