Seems an odd way to frame it imo. compassionate vs selfishness. Those are the only two kinds of people? And why is selfishness so bad? People are both.
People have and can innovate solutions for themselves, their own interests, and even for profit. Those solution can and have helped everyone.
I agree with you in a sense. Let’s take a big global human problem. Obesity. How the heck does that get solved? Force everyone to eat what we tell them? Force them to exercise? Good luck.
Ozempic is an innovation with lots of pros and cons. It isn’t a panacea. But I bring it up as an example of an out there solution never before possible that WILL change millions of lives. It maintains people agency to live how they want (selfish or not) while giving them a solution to a problem they aren’t able to tackle on their own or don’t care to other than take a pill.
Is ozempic made by compassionate people or selfish people. Prob a mix of both. I think the solution has a lot of compassion in it.
A selfishly or compassionately made company aiming to solve the problem of trash in the ocean, doesn’t require people to change their behavior. Solutions built around people NOT having to change are promising imo. Both can happen at the same time though. People changing habits, new innovations that don’t require change on their part, and a mix of both working together.
Forcing people to stop eating meat, prob not gonna happen. Creating an alternative of lab grown meat (tastes like shit for now) will change behavior over time without forcing anyone.
Also, if the compassionate people solve the problems and are happy doing so, so what. Problems solved for everyone. The compassionate people I know, would never frame themselves as being slaves to other people.
Do we have enough time, idk. 8 billion years if we manage to survive till then ;)
No magic needed. We invented vaccines, we made it to the moon, on the way to recovery of the ozone, created other energy alternatives, etc. big innovations!
I agree with you, evs are not the solution lol. They have many huge cons. Cobalt mining etc.
The problem maybe insurmountable. Even if they are, there is still work to do to make the best of the shit we find ourselves in.
This humans are a terrible species, selfishness reins supreme, we aren’t capable of anything else, everything is bad, there is no hope, we are doomed mentality is a load of shit.
What is your proposed solution? Don’t try? Don’t innovate?
I think it’s possible. There are many innovative and compassionate people in the world trying to solve a variety of crazy hard problems that touch this topic.
But maybe we land in a middle ground. Maybe we make it to another planet.
And if we don’t, we will adapt.
P.S. Watch George Carlin save the plant for a laugh.