Unwilling to Sacrifice

Paul Margolis & Ilan Cohen

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How our daily choices are disrupting and unbalancing the planet.

09/13/2021

The United States has no grand strategy for Environmental Security as it cannot tell itself a consistent, believable story about what is happening and stick to it.

Will it really take 15-20 years to educate our youth and fundamentally shift society? Can the planet really recover from all human destruction in 100-200 years? The United States has no grand strategy for Environmental Security as it cannot tell itself a consistent, believable story about what is happening and stick to it. It does not fully comprehend how environmental security has become an increasingly critical component of its own national security, sovereignty and legitimacy. The Federal Government and previous administrations have continued to use outdated assumptions and data to make decisions, resulting in policies and strategies unfit for the 21st century. Environmental security threats directly endanger US National Security and need to be written into the American security agenda and Federal legislation at or above the level equal to the illegal trade in weapons, drugs, people, money laundering and terrorism. A further obstacle–There are no environmental security officers, liaisons or true experts in US embassies or consulates, indicating the US does not take climate change or environmental security very seriously. We need to be part of a generation of propaganda that makes consumption and environmental destruction completely unacceptable, just like the N-word.
08/30/2021

The Kabul Effect - How America's retreat from Afghanistan and its 1970s environmental policy will further destabilize and unbalance the planet.

Why doesn't President Biden follow through with his Environmental Tzar's declaration that Environmental Security is National Security? Why can't all the resources and brainpower in silicon valley and the rest of California, the richest state in the US, develop its own water technology in 2021? Countries are buying environmental technologies from the EU and other states, not the US. Why is the US hosting water salinization technologies from other countries? AOC and The Squad are at least bringing ideas to an A-List movie while the Biden Administration's climate agenda amounts to a B-List horror flick. Being overweight 300 years ago meant you were rich and had access to food. Now it means you are poor. How can we make healthy food accessible and affordable to everyone?
08/27/2021

Most big companies are unprofitable when forced to internalize environmental and social costs.

Does the US need a true Environmental Dictator to shift our climate direction? The huge "profit" margins being made by the world’s most profitable industries–big oil, big meat, big tobacco, big mining and big electronics–is being paid for YOU and ME against the future. The drought and wildfires in California are exponentially worse because Nestlé pays zero dollars to empty YOUR water table, rivers and drinking water to sell you their garbage bottled water at $4B profit a year. Why should we expect companies to change if neither consumers or governments are forcing them? Consumers, like YOU, keep buying cheap products that poison our planet, our bodies and wildlife around the globe. Why? Because we are Unwilling to Sacrifice our comfort and way of life today for anything or anyone, not even our children. We are too selfish. We are prisoners to the human condition. Can we get 5-15% of the population to force companies to change? Can we fix the branding issue with being a vegetarian, being vegan? Will China be the one to lead the West into an environmental revolution?
08/25/2021

Can an almighty environmental regulator force companies to police themselves and fundamentally shift their destructive business models?

Government is outsourcing their responsibility to police citizens to airlines. The EPA and other Federal Agencies (DOJ) would fine companies for infractions of fly-tipping, chemical runoff, general pollution and environmental damage. The goal is to make it unprofitable for business as usual and force innovation towards future-proof, more sustainable business models. What financial institution in the world is going to work with you when you have a pending fine with Uncle Sam? Can the US use OFAC against global polluters?
08/25/2021

Rebels vs The Empire - Are you really a Rebel, fighting the system for positive change? Or have you always been part of The Empire?

We are loved watching the Star Wars trilogy growing up. Most of us identified as a young Luke or Leah Skywalker who would save the day at one critical point in our future. We were the totally honest, naive, good-hearted heroes of our life story. We were the good guys. Who in their right mind would identify with The Empire as a child? Nobody. Do people still see themselves as heroes like Luke Skywalker, The Jedi, Han Solo, Leia, Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, C3PO and R2D2? Many of us have turned into CEO Darth Vader, The Emperor, Trade Federation pawns, Stormtroopers (militarized cops / ‘law’ enforcement), other sycophants and enablers of environmental, social and governance destruction. No one has a right to a job that poisons the environment, our water, air and soil, kills wildlife, destroys ecosystems and may end all human life on this planet. Is rationalizing what we do to our fellow man, wildlife and the natural world our only option?
08/25/2021

Our planet is broken because we are Unwilling to Sacrifice anything in the present for a better future.

Are Religion or Authoritarianism the only options to avoid a climate disaster? Can a small sacrifice get rid of Dan Snyder and make Washington Football competitive again? If we don’t decide that everything in the environment is important, there will be cheating and a race to the bottom. We need to use the media to draw focus and drive real action on the most important topic in the world today. The climate. Are we doomed to remain simple Consumption Units for business?
08/25/2021

How can we close Engagement Gap between climate change awareness and sustained, impactful action?

If 20% of the US population stopped eating meat, dairy and fish tomorrow, we would all be amazed at the innovation of these industries to create new products just to stay in business. If we cut off a large enough portion of demand and revenue across any industry, changes would occur at light speed. How can we ignite collective action to drive these changes?

7 Episodes

How our daily choices are disrupting and unbalancing the planet.

Creator

Paul Margolis & Ilan Cohen
Years Active

2021
Episodes

7
Rating

Explicit
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© Paul Margolis & Ilan Cohen
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Unwilling to Sacrifice