‘The New Normal’ and sustainable development: How can we shift the focus from ‘individual blame’ to fundamental changes in societies and systems?
If we want to keep up with the climate crisis and the effects that emerge from this development, how can we organise and make sustainable lifestyles possible?
We need political decisions and regulations that have the common good in mind. By putting the responsibility for a sustainable future on politicians and our system as whole, we can use the collective to efficiently address issues like uneven distribution of wealth.
“Individuals do not exist in a vacuum. What people do is also conditioned, facilitated and constrained by societal norms, political institutions, public policies, infrastructures, technologies, markets and culture.”
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article: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/07/we-cant-do-it-ourselves.html
