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"Surviving the climate crisis will require a widespread, fundamental change of our values and beliefs."
I probably asked for it by using the word "surviving", but there's more climate edgelordism in the comments than I'm usually comfortable with.
In general, if you're doing omnicidal ideation, I don't want to talk to you.
I'm somewhat disagree. I think that we will need to change our understanding of mineral rights; a lot of those fossil fuels will need to stay in the ground.
And we'll need to start treating ecosystem services as valuable and deserving of compensation.
But in general I think liberal democratic values, like those enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, are sufficient to get us through this.
Another value I think we'll need to cultivate is an appreciation of place, instead of the celebration of global placelessness we have now.
We need to reduce travel and restore ecosystems. We need to eat native foods, grown locally. Learning to love the place that you live in, and taking responsibility for it, may be an important value change.
@evan I just finished this book - This Is Where You Belong - about that! I enjoyed it and recommend it. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27210260M/This_is_where_you_belong
@mattlehrer I read it a couple of years ago. It's a fave!
@evan It is a significant value change.
We live in a society whose elite political classes debate "should the owners of private property have zero restrictions on their ability to coerce labor and pollute the environment (GOP)" vs "should the owners of private property have ~some~ restrictions on their ability to coerce labor and pollute the environment (Dems)."
Neither one has ANY room whatsoever for "eating native foods, grown locally," much less caring for the places we're in.