Just been watching this critique of the apocalyptic environmental narrative, which depresses many people, and which is not based on rational considerations. I particularly liked the analysis of the psychology behind this narrative - its religious element, and the way it often forms an unholy alliance with people who are anti- the system, and prone to seeing the world in terms of victims and oppressors. Extinction Rebellion is cited as an example.
The rational solutions are often the opposite of what we think: You want to stop the land being degraded? Then draw the subsistence farmers into work in the cities, which is what they'd prefer anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLxZF_EWaLE
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