Hello Anthony! I enjoyed reading your take on ‘How Bad Are Bananas?’ I’m glad you took a look at it! Your conclusion is sound: systemic changes are what is urgently needed. I argue that individual changes help set the climate for systemic change - but agree that if we think the answer is limited to individual change, we are fooling ourselves. It’s possible that for people only just beginning to wake up to the climate emergency, they may believe it’s all about going vegan and getting solar panels - but everyone who’s been paying attention for some time ( and not been in deep denial), knows that systemic chance is urgent.
I think a lot of my work is aimed at the denial--not of climate change per se, but of what it will actually take to fix it. Way too many climate conscious people are stuck in the carbon footprint cage, which produces both bad messaging (which reinforces climate denail) and lack of needed action. We need those folks to wake up. I'm grateful for the recommedation to read this book, as it pretty much proved out what I felt was true but didn't have enough data for. More on this will be in my next book.
You are welcome! I might recommend your post to my readers. I say ‘might’ because I tend to hand dozen of newsletter ideas but only execute a fraction of them!
Hello Anthony! I enjoyed reading your take on ‘How Bad Are Bananas?’ I’m glad you took a look at it! Your conclusion is sound: systemic changes are what is urgently needed. I argue that individual changes help set the climate for systemic change - but agree that if we think the answer is limited to individual change, we are fooling ourselves. It’s possible that for people only just beginning to wake up to the climate emergency, they may believe it’s all about going vegan and getting solar panels - but everyone who’s been paying attention for some time ( and not been in deep denial), knows that systemic chance is urgent.
I think a lot of my work is aimed at the denial--not of climate change per se, but of what it will actually take to fix it. Way too many climate conscious people are stuck in the carbon footprint cage, which produces both bad messaging (which reinforces climate denail) and lack of needed action. We need those folks to wake up. I'm grateful for the recommedation to read this book, as it pretty much proved out what I felt was true but didn't have enough data for. More on this will be in my next book.
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You are welcome! I might recommend your post to my readers. I say ‘might’ because I tend to hand dozen of newsletter ideas but only execute a fraction of them!
Thanks! I enjoyed your report on the Net Zero sceptics. I am just starting to make recommendaitons in my newsletters. That's an interesting one!