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What positive steps are being taken towards stalling climate change? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fear doesn't work, we've known this for decades. If we know what positive steps are being taken, then we can support those or perhaps build on them if you're able.

What about this?: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210310-the-trillion-dollar-plan-to-capture-co2 We know corporations are a big part of the issue. Are there ways they're being regulated?

That fear based, helpless feeling needs to be shot down when ever we see people spreading that. We need to take action, but no one is talking about what we, as a single household, can do. I'm not saying we alone can fix everything. What steps can we do and/or how can we support people who are doing the right thing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the stopping of subsidizing all agriculture, wouldn't that just be for the huge corporations that have all of the land? I think helping out the small, personal or semi and fully organic farms would be okay. It sounds like from another poster that the farms are a major issue so we need to encourage good behavior and stop the bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Which small farms get this privilege?

Your thesis relies on the premise that it’s possible to elect an incorruptible politician or series of politicians to occupy the power seat required to do a particular thing. But buying politicians will always and forever be the game; so rather than put the scale there for someone to play favorites, it has to be preferable to remove the scale so the temptation cannot be revisited.

If the government gets to pick a winner of an industry, whether it’s on paper a “little guy” or a corporation, then even if for the first few years this is working, you cannot ensure that the next guy won’t use the same tool to pick a different winner.