Date: 2019-04-24 — ‹ The Energy Supplier | Xenophobia ›
In light of the IPCC estimates, I also understand some of the fears and horror of vegetarians and vegans, although ideology and extremism are not part of my vocabulary.
The form of food, like the form of mobility, but also the form of living and that of production have their daily clash in the divergent tensions towards the ideal "green", "sustainable" etc. and the pragmatics of 7500 million people having to feed themselves every day.
With the annoying waste of the 15,000 children who die every day and of which no one evidently cares.
Unfortunately, time unwittingly plays against honest and sensible people. Personal experience after history shows that all components of a new or previous phenomenon, understanding and representation of the process, its dimensions and its relations, formulating one or more partial solutions, testing the solutions and their calibration, implementation of the best resolution are often very time-consuming.
It is the time, not the ideas that win in this pale age.
We note, in the margin, how giving oneself time allows for reflection and pondering one's choices and actions, while, on the contrary, the desire for immediate action grows viscerally, even more violent lightning retaliation for (alleged) wrongs suffered, as hosannas and consensus for Trumpian figures follow one another, Salvinian, Israeli.
How the illusion of a solution, perhaps a leap, is enough to buy us.
Believing in the magician, the healer, the holy man, instead of the doctor, or the scientist.
Certainty and success. Anything and everything. No more small steps, no more gradual progress, just evolve. Spells of Harry Potter.
Rovelli was right, already five years ago, to say that science does not give certainties, but only the best temporary representations we have of the world and its processes.
But the masses want certainty, security, solidity. Like children want fairies and unicorns and the teddy bear when they go to sleep.