Sue Pertwee-Tyr
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I’m not qualified to comment on your brain, but you’ve also misunderstood.Which I happen to think too, people are responsible at least partly. An idea you apparently do not agree with.
No matter how I turn things, I always come to the conclusion that your point is that the government is, in the end, at fault. I guess what remains of my brain is wrongly polarized.
Of course people are ultimately to blame for the increased emissions. But that’s like saying if people didn’t move around, work, eat or breathe, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Or that if there were only a third as many of us, we wouldn’t be in the same mess. All true, but misses the point.
Individually, there is only so much we can do, and shifting the blame on to us lets governments off the moral hook. Which lets them evade their moral responsibility to bring about the conditions to deal with it. Which is precisely how we’ve got to where we are today.
Governments can legislate, they can force people, and corporations, into fundamental changes. You don’t think the surge in electric cars is because the car manufacturers collectively woke up and decided today was the day to go electric? No, this was driven by government (EU) emissions regulation.
Some people will always act responsibly and do the right thing - the Centre for Alternative Technology has been going since I was a kid, but you’ll not get mass take up unless and until governments create the conditions for it. Putting the blame on the individual allows governments to abdicate that responsibility.