Same here (UK). It’s the prisoners’ dilemma and one of the main reasons we’re not going to solve this before modern civilisation as we know it collapses.
What’s the point in tanking your own economy if other countries aren’t following suit? Not exactly a vote winner is it.
Change is a huge boost for an economy. It pushes research, innovation, infrastructure, investment in new things. The belief that responsible change is harmful is a falacy that’s pushed by the powers that don’t want change.
Change does not inheritantly boost an economy. If you look into what is propping up many western markets it’s the AI bubble and guess what, that requires even more energy that we’re currently using.
It’s not a falacy, it would hurt their bottom line which is all they (and a large number of regular folk if we’re honest) care about.
Quite simply profits cannot keep increasing if we are to solve the issue in time. We’d need to fundamentally change our way of living on a global scale. How exactly are you going to convince the powers that be that’s a good idea?
