> I wonder if to achieve that, a back pressure is required in the system that we are just not willing to put up with.
By back pressure you mean some kind of negative feedback, I assume.
I think, more precisely, the problem is not that negative feedback is completely missing. The problem is, that technology and societies have implemented (mostly involuntarily so) lots of systems that effectively distribute the entirety of the negative feedback very widely across the members of society.
Like in a shared living situation where some people take great care to clean up after themselves and others do not. As a whole it somehow "works", without cleanliness getting out of hand, but only because some people are doing more than others. This way, those who do not clean up their own dirt, never even learn their real impact on the whole, because it's continuously remedied by others. Their negative feedback is effectively missing, so they get the impression that everything is fine.
On the worldwide scale it's an analogous situation.
Widespread governmental subsidies for energy are one of the biggest issues I see there. They redistribute a big part of production costs across all tax payers and eliminate a big part of negative feedback.
By back pressure you mean some kind of negative feedback, I assume.
I think, more precisely, the problem is not that negative feedback is completely missing. The problem is, that technology and societies have implemented (mostly involuntarily so) lots of systems that effectively distribute the entirety of the negative feedback very widely across the members of society.
Like in a shared living situation where some people take great care to clean up after themselves and others do not. As a whole it somehow "works", without cleanliness getting out of hand, but only because some people are doing more than others. This way, those who do not clean up their own dirt, never even learn their real impact on the whole, because it's continuously remedied by others. Their negative feedback is effectively missing, so they get the impression that everything is fine.
On the worldwide scale it's an analogous situation.
Widespread governmental subsidies for energy are one of the biggest issues I see there. They redistribute a big part of production costs across all tax payers and eliminate a big part of negative feedback.