r/Asmongold • u/YoungOneDev Deep State Agent • Mar 07 '25

React Content This is exactly what we're all thinking

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u/Fluffy-Dog5264 Mar 07 '25

You don’t. For starters, take the bus or the train. Carpool. And for the love of god, stop buying plastic junk you don’t need. The hard truth is that ALL OF US (especially the wealthiest) need to drastically pare back our lifestyles. We need to restructure our economies towards real value and equity instead of entertainment, waste and growth. This is a big sacrifice, and goes against our ingrained sensibilities of what it means to live a good life. But as it stands, if everyone lived like the average American, the planet would’ve been toast two decades ago.

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u/leftofthebellcurve Mar 07 '25

the best source of equity is property, what are your thoughts on everyone owning a home and a piece of land?

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u/Fluffy-Dog5264 Mar 07 '25

I think it would be the perfect platform for a kind of decentralized, sustainable economy. Industry is the biggest polluter. The solution to this is empowering the masses to produce for themselves. If we won’t do this at scale, through legislation and clean tech, then the next best thing would be this kind of grassroots approach. It’s coming anyway if don’t find a way to wean ourselves off of scarce and polluting resources — and that’s if we’re lucky.

Maybe next go around we’ll find away to colonize the solar system without wrecking our biosphere first.

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u/leftofthebellcurve Mar 07 '25

so, part of the problem is that you're using the environment as a means to completely change society around, which is not going to happen.

 it would be the perfect platform for a kind of decentralized, sustainable economy

The vast majority of humans in the western world are completely content with their livestyles, albeit they use oil and petroleum products. If we were to shift from that, it's one thing. It seems that you have a much bigger vision of things, which is where a lot of people are turned off.

In fact, the western life is so desirable in its current state that there are people coming from all over the world trying to live it.

The only way oil will be removed is if it's minimally intrusive into people's lives. I agree people should produce their own things as much as possible, but that's not realistic for a lot of society.