More on climate change
Apr. 20th, 2019 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI blame governance for not doing more to address global warming because it takes legislation to force the behavioral change that is needed. For example, if Pigovian taxes made everybody pay the true environmental cost of their actions then I suspect that people would end up telecommuting more, buying more solar panels, manufacturers would make longer-lasting goods, etc.: the distorted market would find ways without needing to be pushed by specific policy initiatives. Of course, the market is already distorted thanks to lobbying from monied special interests such as oil; perhaps that is where democracy fails.
On a more personal note I wondered how non-violent protest compares with my changing my own behavior more, not that one excludes the other. We have taken small measures like buying only renewable electricity and we could bear to eat less beef and whatnot. My main thought is of our car: we have an efficient one but it is a shame that the bus service from our village takes so long and the seats are so close together that it is hard to work from them. It would make sense to move to somewhere from which I can more easily get to work in Dundee except that we have children in Perth High School which is in the opposite direction.
On a more personal note I wondered how non-violent protest compares with my changing my own behavior more, not that one excludes the other. We have taken small measures like buying only renewable electricity and we could bear to eat less beef and whatnot. My main thought is of our car: we have an efficient one but it is a shame that the bus service from our village takes so long and the seats are so close together that it is hard to work from them. It would make sense to move to somewhere from which I can more easily get to work in Dundee except that we have children in Perth High School which is in the opposite direction.
