• Jack@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Fast decarbonisation […] shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. This would involve a sharp reduction in labour hours and the use of raw materials, along with big changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover.

    Green parties (excluding the capitalist German and US Greens) have had this as the priorities on the platforms for decades. But the vast, vast majority of people choose to instead vote for the greedy, short-sighted, sociopathic parties that are instead increasing

    • CO2e emissions,
    • consumption,
    • hours of work for effectively less money,
    • factory animal farming and industrial fishing,
    • habitat destruction, …