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Originally Posted by clintjm

What country do you live in where you don't have any climate change regulations?

Thai people don't care for the enviroment much. Their media is too isolated from the rest of the world, and, unlike Europe where non English speaking countries still have intelligent people pushing things, there is a serious lack of education in all areas here. The people really know nothing of the big-wide-world.

Regardless, this isn't a political arguement, still. American parties present their policies on climate change and the people vote on them, but few people have little understanding about the world aside what has been pushed by the government for the sake of winning votes. Information like this is not automatically incorrect, but a lot of it is.

It would be better if we could study the world ourselves so we already know the facts before we go to the polling booth to read the pamphlets.

Education on real climate change has really become just as selfish as those who care nothing to prevent climate change; a massive focus is now what people can do to ensure their greedy civilization lives on through the future. The real problem I've come to notice, however, is not that our civilization is in danger, it's that our civilization has failed to begin with. It does not need to live on, it needs to be completely reconstructed. People will never understand this through political education. They need to develop proper passion, respect and affection for the natural world; something they'll only learn through unbiased and dedicated study of it.

When you do come to understand all this, you can see global warming is really only a tiny fraction of the real problem. It's really like the push to save the panda; the panda is really one of the least significant animals that is on the endangered list. The animals which really effect the enviroment are bugs and fungi and the sorts, mostly. However, we use the panda as a mascot. In saving the habitat of the panda, scientists are really only trying to save the habitat of some ugly little bug that lives there which creates a serious and real butterfly effect if it's destroyed.

Global warming is the new panda; if the world were to increase in temperature, it would have a massive effect on coastal lines and human farming, but a lot of the natural world would really be fine. But global warming is instead used as a mascott; given people can relate to the threat of Sydney sinking, or of Australias farms drying up, enviromentalists can then push for other little things inbetween in an attempt to save other things, such as using the panda as a mascott to save the ugly bugs.

This would be fine; most people are stupid, that's a fact. Most people are seriously dumb. If they're unable to relate to something personally, they just don't care about it. They cannot think for anyone but themselves. But the problem has become that governments have now capitalized on global warming. Global warming has now become a mascott for successful governments in the West, and is not much different than Ronald McDonald the clown. No one gives a fuck about the real enviroment/clown; everyone's just trying to sell their product.

It really backfired. Instead of people realizing there's a huge bigger picture to be sighted, people have focused entirely on global warming; trying to save only the panda simply by keeping him a zoo, kind of, and now all the bugs are dead.

The larger and real problems global warming was supposed to be a mascott for was things like over population; protection of reefs and rainforests and other delicate and massively important eco systems; prevention of deforestation and desertification.

However, there's little money to make in "not doing something". The capitilzation that has now been pushed by the government is focusing on more consumerism and selling more products; cleaner cars; new electricity methods; infrastructure renewal; green holidays/tourism. All this shit. But people being as uneducated as they are, do not realize global warming is really only a small part of a bigger problem, and that what's really need is to slow down on consumerism.

A real good example I noticed; how much does adevertising push owning a motorbike in America and Australia? Almost 0. In Thailand, every second ad on TV is trying to sell you a small scooter. Why?

When the time comes to own less destructive vehicles, why are Australians and Americans pushed just to buy a different model of car instead of being told 80% of Thai people just own motorbikes and they're fine and if you got one of them you would not need these big assed cars to lower your per capita carbon emissions, anyway. They're just trying to sell as much as they can to whatever market they have. They have a stupid market with only basic needs and a few simp[le boxes to tick.

Using this example, you can see the world is still in a massive frenzy of consumerism, and the push for global warming, the global warming mascott, has simply been picked up by governments and capitalist coporations to sew more of their fucking bullshit. It's completely backfired.

In my eyes, the world is fairly doomed. Like Egypt, Greece and Rome before it, we're about to burn for our vanity and arrogance. I do not see there's any stopping this. When the soluation becomes you have to educate these people I'm surrounded by, I already know it will fail.