I'm not sure why you linked that video. (I find it annoying when people just drop links. Especially if I've got to watch a video and guess their point. My bandwidth is expensive.)
Sorry about that. I thought that dropping a youtube link was enough for the little youtube window to appear, which makes it somewhat easier for people to decide whether they want to/should watch it or not.
The guy says something about we act as if there are 'no consequences for our actions'. Clearly some do. I'm not sure that we, in general, do. I'd point out that some recognize the consequences sooner than other who 'get it' later.
That we need to 'be able to turn that around'. OK, I agree. To a point.
That there is a 'cultural constraint on change'. Sure.
That 'people who are trained to study the raw data and as scientists base their opinion on data'. Right.
So other than stating a few obvious points what was the point?
Jason Bradford says much more, and it goes a lot deeper. I meant the video as a reply to your "pointing of finger and laughing". I'll quote the entire first half of the video, and hopefully you'll then understand my POV:
This faulty premise that we can always keep expanding human population and human consumption of resources, how does that perpetuate? I think what happens is this: essentially we have this physical reality based upon the availability of fossil fuel energy which essentially allows us to raise our short-term carrying capacity of the planet tremendously.
We are able to now organize the resources of our planet to support more and more people and more more consumptive lifestyles, to a point where it's gone on for so long and we've met so many challenges that in its essence we developed a culture that reinforces the idea that there are no real consequences to our actions because even if there's a short term problem we'll have the ingenuity and the ability to solve it.
The society in general then has generation after generation going back with that belief system and those set of expectations. And so to be able to turn that around when all anyone who's alive today can see, is just, you know, this era of human progress that goes back into the past and they assume it's gonna stretch out to the future.
And it's embedded in the laws and the habits that people have. I'ts just sort of a positive feedback loop. So there you see this cultural constraint then on change that becomes very very dangerous, because when that is challenged, it's challenging generations of belief and assumptions.
And what happens is that those who challenge it, are essentially putting themselves outside of their own culture. And that becomes very difficult to handle as an individual, psychologically and emotionally. Because your constantly going to be looking at your own culture, and saying: Oh my gosh, it's crazy. It's crazy. And yet the culture will look back at you and say: you're crazy."
I'm no fan of doomer porn, but I'm no fan of wishful thinking either. To really believe that just switching from fossil fuels to renewables, without making structural changes to the economic system and everything in its wake (culture, social relations, narratives), will make everything okay, and present that as naked truth, whilst laughing at the stupid doomers, is....
Saddening.
It depresses me, just like it depressed Jason Bradford (and probably still does). Some deny, some fail to act, and others are acting, but walk right past the root cause of our ongoing predicament.