defunctdigits
Winger
Ah, you're not a fan of experts?
What do you do when you need medical treatment?
Or you want to buy a house and need a solicitor and things like ground reports etc.?
Or your car, TV, hifi or computer needs repairing?
How are you even on the Internet without experts creating the technologies you use to get here?
Do you not use telephones or electricity or tap water or gas or petrol?
Do you only eat food you've grown or killed and cooked yourself? How did you discover it was safe to eat those foods?
If you have kids, did you deliver them yourself?
It's a common meme nowadays for people to blame "experts" for things, but it's a myth being perpetrated by those trying to manipulate you... Climate change denyers with vested interests in the fossil fuel industry, religious zealots wanting to make people think it's ok to avoid taking vaccines, politicians manipulating the weak-minded, and Trash newspapers like the Mail and the redtops scaremongering people into buying more papers or voting a certain way even though it's against the person's best interest and only benefits rich people like the owner of the newspaper.
"Don't listen to the experts, listen to us!" (even though those people themselves are experts... in manipulation).
As we're discovering here the problem with a lot of experts is they think "I'm the expert" so don't listen and have little interest outside of their field. Which is fine in isolation but the real world is joined up, as we are discovering only to well, and we need people with "joined up" thinking. I was reading an article this morning about how Amazon (the company) is developing new (controversial) ideas in which a member of Amazon stated, “It’s a societal discourse and decision - and policy-making - that needs to happen to decide where you can apply technologies.” Experts avoiding the joined up thinking so as to pursue their area of expertise. Of course the next step will be to have their experts lobby the Government and offer their expert opinion. I'm certainly not anti expert but they need to be brought under control not given the carte blanche you propose.
Its weird to think that the planet is going to hell because of money.
That poll that suggests 20-40 billion a year or whatever it is and people were against it is crazy.
Governments should be able to print unlimited money to pay the best and brightest to fix this mess. Its just money for christ sake.
Other solutions:
Eating meat needs to be banned.
Less cars. More bikes.
People should have 1 child max. ( africans having up too 7 ffs).
Make enviroment/ climate a compulsory subject in schools.
Anyone who litters, hunts or fish recieves public stonings/lashings.
And the most important. Any country who refuses to change gets nuked. If certain countries are dooming us all they need ending.
Lets get angry.