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It's a symptom of the Great Stagnation. There's a clear crisis with multiple plausible solutions, yet somehow all of humanity has made ~zero progress (on the geoengineering front) for decades. Never mind that the world's wealthier and more democratic than ever; or that information has never been more accessible to anyone who looks for it; or that technology and engineering are at their highest point in the history of civilization. We're paradoxically become less effectual than the era of the Manhattan Projects and Marshall Plans. We don't solve problems.

- "The statement said, "The opposition to these climatic manipulations is based on the fact that there are currently no international agreements that address or supervise solar geoengineering activities..."

And international diplomacy and world treaty bureaucracies, in turn, are paralyzed with indecision (or indifference). Insist on getting sign-offs from higher authorities, who you know in turn will do nothing. This is stuff straight out of the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944).

https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=29597454


Who benefits from non-responsibility? Why are we not capable to produce figures capable to shoulder public burdens and are thrustworthy enough?

Why do we prioritize moral shortcomings of a person/character over the effectiveness of the work when discussing politics?

Whore, drink and murder all night for all i care, if the individual can prevent ecologic collapse and economic collapse during the day, thats still a good deal, even if i would be among the murder victims.

If the discourse around problems is so slanted towards "unimportant" topics, who can we remove from the discourse culturewise to refocus it? Can we build a social platform that punishes distractions from importance and reward contributions, according too global prioritys? A synthetic algorithmic clutch, focusing human attention away from the gossip..

Imagine a politics, without the person, only there legal actions being reviewed and percieved. Could been even annonymized as just a Nr.

> Whore, drink and murder all night for all i care, if the individual can prevent ecologic collapse and economic collapse during the day, thats still a good deal, even if i would be among the murder victims.

This is too simplistic due to second order effects. E.g. visibly doing those things makes it far more likely other people in slightly lower positions of power will try it on, many crossing the boundaries of what they can get away with. Then the corruption starts along those fuzzy boundaries until it infects everything else.

Classic corruption infects mostly along the "i can extract value from him by threatening to tell the law" lines.

We are worser of then that now, because the politics and the law production is corrupted.

And to reduce that a start would be to focus on the law generated, to have that uncorrupted. If there is laws that forbid politicians from taking money, classic corruption might even reemerge.

> We don't solve problems.

Oh yes we do. In face of an ongoing global catastrophe we have solved the problem of how to not care. Fossil propaganda at this scale is an engineering and social challenge which has been successfully solved, with massive investment and violence.

We (as a species) are good at wars I guess (which are or at least were easier to sell) than spending money on long term and expensive problems where you can just blame everyone else.
You are right, and at the same time there are flip sides to all those points. More democratic than ever with some gaping holes, wealthier in places and for some, information just as accessible as misinformation... We're better on a 10.000 feet view, yet quite far from being "there".
more democratic doesn't mean more effective.

many people prefer spending economic surplus on local stuff (housing, education, healthcare, sewage treatment facility, storm drains, roads, smart phones, cars) then all of this has upkeep.

it seems democracy with a developed economy, and capitalism, and these huge corporations optimize for short-termism, carving up the pie and not for growing it bigger. (there's a basic setting of "1-2 percent growth per year, and it might trickle down")

basic research funding is laughably low (and its quality is also unfortunately low), state capacity has been outsourced, there are no serious large scale publicly funded efforts (which is would have the chance of reaping the benefits of automation/industrialization, economies of scale), no effort to actively counteract the negative effects of globalization (disadvantaged regions can become corporate towns at best, trailer park fentanyl hell at worst), and of course cities are completely Pikachu surprised that urbanization continues and more housing is needed, and more density is needed, etc.

It's a symptom of the US Republican Party. They are the only thing standing in the way. Don't take it for granted and give them an out; that's how they can keep doing it. Look at the aggressive obstruction - taking action against businesses (remember the party of the free market and business?) who do anything about climate change, even Microsoft for giving Xboxes a sleep mode.

That's the problem. If you blame something else because you don't want to be 'partisan', you are diverting us from a solution.

The US Republican Party runs Mexico?
Because we all know how the US Republican Party is in control of China, India, Russia, and the whole European Union.
The UK is much more stagnant than the USA and has nothing like the Republican party.

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