By providing him with an advice on dealing with the opposite side of the coin. Unless you're unable to comprehend how this world work, everybody's gonna figure it out sooner or later in life how to be successful. So the OP will be at one time in the future object of envy as well.
I grew up in Sweden with extensive Freedom to roam rights where you can visit all the forest and lakes. But my view has gone in the opposite direction, as someone who loves being in nature I thought the idea was wonderful and I have spent so much time in nature picking mushrooms and nuts. It has been great for me and I respect nature and try to leave it as I found it.
Unfortunately I can't say the same for other people. I just keep seeing more and more trash around pretty lakes because people got there and have a party and just leave all the trash. I found piles of junk in the forest just to learn that people just dump it there because it's easy and free. The problem is that it's basically impossible to enforce the Freedom to roam rules about not leaving trash or cutting down trees and so on. Basically it is just free for all to dump trash and behave like people want because of the lack of enforcement.
At this point I really wish to own a forest but not in Sweden, I want to own it in a country where I have real property right were I can people away from it because I don't want them to ruin it. Sure I don't need 100,000 of acres but I still want to own forest and be able to keep people from using it without permission.
A better, longer term, structural solution to this is investing in education and fostering a culture of environmental awareness from childhood. Instead, in the US, we keep defunding the EPA and denouncing scientists sacrificing their lives to appease the needs of rich people to increase the value of their equity.
Do you think people don’t know that dumping and littering in nature is bad? There is an inherent selfishness at play, especially with little threat of punishment or shame.
A similar problem encountered in California is illegal pot grows in National Forest and even National Park lands. These growers deliberately introduce large quantities of rodent poison into the econsystem, divert streams, and dump trash in what is supposed to be the most protected and pristine federal land. And they do it for profit, or because, as they claim, their families back home would be threatened by a cartel.
Mandate that ICE cars be 30% more fuel efficient in 2025 OR 80% by 2030?
And is it better to have ambitious goals vs realistic goals?
What might the impact of society be if we put up very ambitious goals but fail them all massively, what will happen to the trust of government institutions?
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I have a B.Sc in Energy engineering and working on a M.Sc in a field of renewable energy and I'm very skeptical of the goal politicians make, many goals who should be fulfilled when they have long since left office.
And is it better to have ambitious goals vs realistic goals? What might the impact of society be if we put up very ambitious goals but fail them all massively, what will happen to the trust of government institutions?
this. exactly why no one trusts their governments anymore.
Can you explain what it was here that you thought would help OP in helping him deal with his problems?