every single year, young global leaders fly their private jets to their cool kids clubhouse and decide how should we, unwashed masses, live our lives. they tell us to stop eating meat, to stop driving cars, to stop owning things, to stop having children.
and the political leanings of the useful idiots who take their side are beyond ironic to me.
It it has been at least 20 years since anyone with a brain went into journalism and the results are painfully obvious.
There is no grand conspiracy. The news is just shit.
Our education system is shit, and I find it very hard to believe that very specific things being skipped is not intentional.
there is no 'conspiracy' because it is publicly known and easily verifiable that over 50% of mass media is owned by a handful of multinational corporations and oligarchs.
the tunes they all sing are so remarkably similar, it's impossible not to recognize the persistent patterns after you listen for a while.
However, your conclusions are strange to me. Some of these seem out of left field (eg “stop having children?” IMO people are lamenting not being able to afford children and the state wants more kids)
Others are misguided. For things like “stop driving”, the arguments are usually positing that everyone needs to pay for the externalities that have long been subsidized. For example, car centric urban planning. We need to factor in all the other negative aspects driving cars brings. Additionally, car centric urban planning limits other lifestyles.
I’m gonna ignore the idiot comment and assume the best.
Good luck to you.
- Tim Jackson is a professor who seems to have spent his life in NGOs, think tanks and getting degrees of various kinds.
- "Kate Soper teaches philosophy and cultural theory at the University of North London"
- "Giorgos Kallis is a citizen of Greece, professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, publisher of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, and an active member of the group Research & Degrowth"
- Anitra Nelson is "an activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia."
- "Jason Edward Hickel (born 1982) is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona"
- "Kohei Saito, a 37-year-old Japanese Marxist philosopher has emerged as the movement’s public face." [Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo]
The only one that isn't an academic is Liegey.
The quickest way to give these people a less hypocritical understanding of economics would be to give them exactly what they ask for, and apply some degrowth to their grant funding.
I'm going to bet my bottom dollar none of those featured in the article are flying private, nor have any political ability to limit the parent commenter in any way. Hence, not who they I think they were talking about.
Trump, XI, Putin, Kishida, Modi, Joko Widodo, Han Duck-soo, Ali Khamenei, Scholz
Are all young, hip polluting global leaders.
You Sir, have become unable to accept even the most basic, easy to validate facts (unless you want to argue that somehow the handful of countries with leaders under 60 are contributing more to pollution by having their politians fly to summits)?
It's aging boomers who have been indoctrinated on infinite growth beating the laws of thermodynamics and finite resources that are dooming us.
Co2 Pollution 2024 Top List
China 12667.43 United States 4853.78 India 2693.03 Russia 1909.04 Japan 1082.65 Indonesia 692.24 Iran 686.42 Germany 673.6 South Korea 635.5 Saudi Arabia 607.91