We are locking our children into a climatic furnace for lifestyles choices that are unnecessary. We rationalize our way through life. We live the lies we tell ourselves. Sweep it all under the rug. Out of sight out of mind.
Must have that 11 hour flight to LA
Got to get that 3 ton SUV
Ignore it; I wont be around then any way.
The concentration camp guards of the holocaust had a similar mindset.
“We already have – thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work – enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.”
“It was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust