re: #128 freetoken

To ask an SUV driving, rayon-wearing, live-in-Riverside-county-but-work-in-downtown-San- Diego American to change their lives so people in, say, Bangladesh won’t die en masse in say 2070 is asking the impossible.

I’m not being snarky, I’m being serious.

The reasons the young man drives an SUV, wears stylish clothes, and commutes so far so he can get a better paying job are: (1) so he can eat better, (2) so he can increase his reproductive opportunities, and (3) so he can sleep safely. It is animal instinct.

To change that behavior is difficult. Not impossible, using the denotation of impossible”, but it is nearly impossible.

If we can’t reeducate people into changing their lifestyles, totalitarian measures will eventually be needed to ensure the survival of the human race. What you’re pretty much saying is that things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before they get better.