You ever walk into a room, flip on the dimmer switch and have to slowly adjust the knob to bring the lights up? When it comes to global warming the world is acting like that dimmer switch. Sure the lights do go on, but there is a big delay from the darkest of lights to the brightest of lights. The world needs to be more like a standard light switch. Flip on, flip off...It's instant. Unfortunately we are living in the time of the dimmer switch, this my friends is what happens when you mix money, politics and old fashion people into one cesspool.
Money. It's no secret that money is a driving force in this world. Money gets shit done. When it comes to the fossil fuel industry - no research has to be done for you to imagine how much unfathomable amounts of money that, that industry makes. When pushes are made for the use of cleaner energy people are scared because they won't be rich anymore. As well, transitioning to a more green world...wait for it...costs MONEY! Everything costs money.
This is where my light switch ideology kicks in. Instead of using a dimmer switch, flip that mother flipping light on. Make the change. Everything costs money! But you can make money too. Think about the jobs and employment that would be there. Not even for only using cleaner energy but as well jobs made through the efforts of cleaning up our planet. I'm reading an interesting book right now talking about how the internet was made, and boy if you were the first company to be there, you're basically locked in as king... *cough cough Microsoft.* My senses tell me that this is true for a clean country, by being clean and 100% green others will want to be you. Maybe even start selling your excess energy to other countries and while you do it you undercut the price of fossil fuels.
Politics. Politics are wack as a nick nack patty wack. They are straight up dumb. Governments are much too slow - especially in the western world - to fight climate change, and for this matter anything in this world. Governments currently need to follow in pursuit of some progressive actions that they are making when it comes to climate change. Germany said by 2050 it will be run on 100% renewable energy. While this is still not the most ideal example it's one that should be looked at.
Before times were much slower, advancements didn't happen over night, in today's world a day doesn't go by without a new advancement. This is how action needs to happen. Climate change is in need of new, good, governing policies to tackle it but they need them NOW. Not 20 years from NOW. NOW. LIGHT SWITCH.
To combat these slow changes, while it may sound bias, the younger generation needs to have more say in what's happening with the polices. Heck, the average age of the politicians in USA are almost 60. They won't even be alive to see the effects of climate change. We will - well that is if you're not too old. Most of these politicians started off in this world without technology and slowly but surely as they aged enough to see their first Nintendo system (specifically just to see it, because they wont know how to work it...okay i'm sorry that was rude). They don't know what change is like. Most of them i'm sure are still working the same job since they started their career. While the younger generation in the fields of work are being bounced around like ping pong balls, going job to job.
But basically what i'm saying is that the younger generation is aware of change. They know what it's like. I sense that the older humans are living in the past still not worrying about what the future holds for them. The younger generation smells a mile away that change is needed. We don't want to be playing the floor is real lava on the way home from school.
In conclusion. Money sucks. Politics suck. Older people don't suck but some of their outlooks on life do (I ain't mean). Change is needed to this earth like a light switch and these three things (not limited to these three however) are controlling when that change is. I have one hundred more things to say on this topic but I just made all this up on the spot and took me 10 min to write. Hope you enjoyed it and remember "be the change."
Cheers.
P.S. Also on a fun side note I watched a ted talk the other day and something that was said strung a cord in me. Instead of attacking the oceans trying to clean them 24/7 or all the garbage everywhere. While that stuff is great, it doesn't solve the problem. If you're on a boat with a small leak in it, do you keep throwing the water out back into the ocean or do you stop the leak first? The leak. This is what I am saying about how cleaning everything is only a temporary help, the source of these items need to be tracked down and plugged. This means better more environmentally safe, decomposable packaging in our everyday life.
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