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It's always interesting that people are quick to talk about extreme weather changes but rarely want to address the causes. I ended up watching a video that touches on the topic. I hate Mondays.
Everyone hates Mondays and everyone loves talking about how Mondays suck! You'll never have conversations about "fixing" Mondays though. That's because Mondays are just a fact of life. There will always be a day you have to go to work. Moving the start day or shortening the work week doesn't change the fact that everyone will still dislike the day their time off ends and their work hours start. You can't "fix" Mondays.
There are also people who think other social problems are just like Mondays. Unfixable. Of course they agree it's bad! But there's just nothing that can be done.
Continuing with the analogy, even the honest attempts to fix Mondays are characterized as impractical, idle fantasies.
How about we don't schedule critical meetings to start first thing Monday morning? Even if that's the "only" time everyone can meet? And if it's really the only time everyone has available, doesn't that warrant questioning a bit?
Or what if we just start later on Mondays? And maybe we consider not offsetting it but working later on other days? 39-hour week? 36-hour week?
You just hit the nail on the head for things that bother me. People just throwing out ideas that "only partially" work. This isn't just Monday's, or climate change, but literally every fucking bit of politics. It drives me up the wall.
"Yeah but it only makes things 50% better, so I don't support it"
So we'll sit with 100% bad rather than 50% better because Jim in Arizona thinks we need to only have perfect solutions, and that anything that only makes things better aren't worth investigating. Better transit, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen trains, gun control, sex education, free lunches? All horrible things to Jim because "they don't solve the problem". No, they just make it much better. Maybe we could use them while we search for the perfect solution, you know slow incremental change? No, okay then fuck you too, Jim
And while I clearly call out one side, us liberals are very guilty of this too. In fact, there's already an example of that elsewhere in these comments.
I hate to be that guy, but it is literally already too late to reverse climate change, largely due to the attitude of people like you.
Turns out incremental change is worthless when you are on a time limit.
Temporary incremental solutions and total solutions are not mutually exclusive.
Oh no we only slowed climate change by half! How terrible. Nope better just throw up our hands and give up, thanks for your sage advice.