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The planetary emergency is here. The warnings are getting louder (pearlsandirritations.com)

submitted 1 week ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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Thus, humanity has had no fewer than four crystal-clear warnings, by the most knowledgeable people on the planet – and will shortly receive a fifth – that we are bound for disaster.

The new warning of a planetary emergency, due to appear in the journal Bioscience, will focus on actions that must be urgently taken to address the destruction of global life support systems, increasingly fragile water, food and economic systems and the need to eliminate fossil fuels and cut global pollution.

Humanity has the technology and resources to save itself and a habitable planet.

But not, apparently, the resolution nor the brains. Nor a sound enough grasp of the compound nature of the emergency now engulfing us.

Unfortunately, the third warning skates around the greatest elephant on the planet: the fact that it has four times more humans than it can sustain. Unless overpopulation is also addressed, all other solutions must fail.

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[–] splastik@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Humanity” is a bit too convenient a catch-all. There’s only so much the average person can do with paper bags, paper straws and solar panels. Individual choices have a role, but the scale of the problem requires systemic change IMO.

Governments, corps and a relatively small number of institutions that control energy, industry, infrastructure and policy. If meaningful change is needed, that’s where the focus needs to be.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I agree with you. I think the main thrust of the article is to act at a planetary level not just an individual one. 'Humanity' may be what some of the elites are lacking, but nevertheless we are sharing the same world with them and we have to do whatever we can to stop them destroying it for their own profit at the cost of those who'll suffer the consequences. Young people already know this. Imagine those that are just young children, what they'll have to deal with.

Imo, all that we do counts, at any and every level. Countries, organisations, smaller groups are made up of individuals interacting. The more people understand how they are being played, the more they are likely to become active.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah I agree. The only thing the individual can do is join organisations and collectively push to alter society, or at the very minimum vote for political parties who will do something.