That’s humans. Those are human constructs.
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In general I just get frustrated with the human slander. No. We're not all evil assholes. We're not stupid. We're a bunch of animals that managed to break out of the normal fight for survival primarily by working together. This all only works because we help each other most of the time. And stupid? Why? Because we don't all individually understand the massively complex world we've created for ourselves?
The bad people and things that happen are bad because they're exceptional. They break from the norm and aren't representative of the whole of the human experience. It really sucks that some psychos can take advantage of our behaviors to get us to do awful stuff, but the solution to that isn't "Woe is me, humans are just bad. Maybe we should all just go away." Are their victims bad? Do they not deserve to be saved because their oppressors are evil?
You can't really have any social progress before you recognize that "we can do this" and "we are worth it." Otherwise what would be the point?
We're basically monkey's with nukes.
I know right? Thats like saying all dogs are evil because police dogs attack protestors
Don’t confuse can’t with don’t. People are people.
But all humans are destroying* the planet, whether Amazonians or Africans or billionaires.
Every one of those people require land for agriculture or hunting, all of them use natural resources and will until they are expended, all of them have children that exponentially increase the demand on everything we all need (or want).
Billionaires are much more harmful than many thousands and more, it is true... but examples are legion of regular old proles destroying the environment around them once their population reaches a certain level (this varies depending on the local environment).
The simpler/more primitive the society, the less stressors they put on the environment, but they remain stressors regardless.
*By destroy I mean to make it inhospitable for people as we know them, planet will be fine long after we are all gone.
It's because of the way we live. The capitalist/consumerist lifestyle is not very sustaiable because it burns trough resources too quickly. We could absolutely reengineer our civilization to be more eco-centric but that would hurt the billionaires.
A decentralized network of aquaponics systems could provide everyone with food. Cod houses are free of toxic chemicals. Vehicles that use compressed air in place of gas exist. Food can be cooked with solar cookers. Mechanical computing is a thing. And PCB boards can be made out of clay.
*By destroy I mean to make it inhospitable for people as we know them, planet will be fine long after we are all gone.
What if theres a new humanlike species after we are gone? They would not have the same knowledge as we do and could recreate the same, if not even worse results (especially if they rediscover our nukes) We made so much social progress, we cant just give that up now.
Identify the real enemy.
... does not identify the real enemy.
I don't know man. I know some of those kids in Africa, and they don't all prioritize the environment over things like food and shelter.
For sure, but when we total up the list of top contributors, they're nowhere near the top. So let them, because they're not "the cause".
That’s not entirely true though. Emissions from Europe aren’t really that high compared to China and India. I could be wrong but I don’t think the CCP have the same beliefs as the governments of Germany or France or even the USA.
Emissions from Europe aren’t really that high compared to China and India
India’s per capita emissions are lower than any European country except Albania, and China is only moderately higher than EU countries compared to the US, Canada, and Australia.
Total emissions are useless when populations vary so widely between countries.
literally nobody thought that was the case. this is just holier-than-thou fartsmellery.
"Humans are destroying the planet" has been a great way of off-loading the social responsibility aspect from multi-billion dollar gas guzzling AI-generated farts factory to Grandma, who forgot to put out her recycling last week.
the prefix "some" is implicit there. but also, like, the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars. it's just that the hundreds of container ships going around the world is a way bigger problem still.
the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars
Sure. But it's not the individual commuters who are setting national transportation policy.
The folks driving the sports cars (and in the yachts and private jets), on the other hand...
that's why i continued my post. to illustrate that the issue is not the individual within the system, but the system itself and the people who shape it.
are you sure about that? the "oh, humans are so evil, we’re destroying our planet! i wish all humans were dead" sentiment is extremely common
yeah that's called ecofascism. it's about as well thought through an ideology as anarchocapitalism.
i mean, it has its roots in how we discuss climate change. we call it "human-made", so yes, people will jump to "humanity is to blame for climate change". it’s a very logical leap, and not entirely wrong, even if it doesn’t tell the whole story (which part of humanity is responsible?)
i feel like that part comes naturally. it's pretty easy to go from "i'm trying to help" to "no matter how much i help i can't make a difference because the system makes it useless" to "who designed the system?"
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For climate activists it's very unlikely, but there are people who believe Africans are the issue because of high birth rates, conveniently ignoring that richer countries do the most damage by far.
Unfortunately the misanthropic sentiment is the foundation for a whole plethora of ecofascist tendencies, both intentionally and unintentionally so, that are shockingly common.
Neither is the average human being anywhere, just trying to survive a hostile narcissistic environment they have no control over
Rich people are destroying the planet. It's nobody else's fault.
I don't like this argument that it's just the rich screwing us over. Ya, they're dickbags with no small responsibility for perpetuating our current situation and their insane lifestyles. But all of us need to use less junk, travel less, and eat a whole lot less meat.
I know so many people who will talk about the environment, but will still think nothing of hopping on a plane for the most frivolous of reasons. Won't even consider public transportation. Eats meat every day.
Ya the oligarchy is fucking us over big time. But that doesn't absolve you of any sort of personal responsibility. Reduce, reuse, recycle. And plant a garden while your at it!
No, we don't. That's part of this sick game. Convince the least powerful to sacrifice ever more while the most powerful sacrifice nothing? No. I won't play this game anymore. I won't voluntarily impoverish my options in life. Until the wealthy and powerful change, I refuse to make my life more costly or difficult than they've already made it. Life is hard enough as it is for the working class, I'm not making it more difficult and for almost zero measurable impact. The magnitude of difference between my impact and theirs makes mine completely, statistically, insignificant. The impact on navigating my life, however, is significant.
No more. Either the rich are brought to heel or we all die together.
And so nothing changes and the planet continues to burn. Keep up your conspicuous consumption because some dickbag has a yacht and custom tax scheme. It's whataboutisim. For sure fuck the oligarchy. But if all the billionaires died over night it would barely make a dent in our co2 emissions.
But hey! At least you got yours. Don't worry, the global south will suffer sooner and worse than you.
I don't have anything. I survive. Almost all I spend is on basic survival. I don't know who you think I am but I don't have the luxury of purchasing choice and I especially don't have the luxury of making my life more expensive than the wealthy have already made it, by sacrificing to resolve your discomfort with the world.
I'd tell you to go talk to the people with power but you already know they don't care about what you have to say, that's why you harass the working class, instead.
Lol I'm not trying to harass anyone. Just push back on the notion that all the world's problems can be laid at the feet of the rich. And if we're gonna collectively pull ourselves out of this ecological disaster we've gotta change. Be willing to eat less meat travel less, consume less overall. And plant a damn garden while you're at it!
You're right in that I don't know anything about you. Except that you're willing to completely miss the point of what's been said and decide to take offence.
Why do you care to protect them in the first place? Are you one of them? Lurking on the peasant's media space, defending the wealthy from their own selfish behavior? Why is the lesson that must be given that the wealthy aren't as evil as their behavior suggests? Why is that your priority at all?
You give offense with every guilt layden demand that the poor and working class further disempower ourselves to satisfy you. Go nag the wealthy who caused this mess, go guilt them into stopping their companies from despoiling the air, the land, the water. Go demand they end the fossil fuel industry that they own and profit from that we are all forced to participate in.
We will never get out of this without the wealthy changing. So long as they refuse, we are lost. Eat less of the meat we can already barely afford with food prices where they are? Travel less!? Who can afford to travel anywhere? Plant a garden? Where the hell are we supposed to do that? Land is too expensive to even have any of it because the wealthy keep buying it all FFS.
You're completely out of touch and yet you come here to lecture us about our responsibilities? You're a class traitor and wealth apologist. If the wealthy refuse to sacrifice to fix the problems they caused then I'd rather watch the world burn.
Lol what part of fuck the oligarchy do you interpret as me "protecting the rich" fuck em. Bring out the guittiones I say. Fuck dude. I'm done
The part where you try to guilt working people into further disempowering themselves through yet more sacrifices. The part where you seem to think the most important lesson here is that rich people aren't at fault and shouldn't be forced to fix it themselves.
Whos stopping us from reengineering our civilisation to be eco-friendly?
Us. There will always be people who enjoy power games and needless cruelty, that's just how we are as a species and what all the religions, empires and industries we've ever had have been based on.
We're not capable of being better, the power games and cruelty have always been too well rewarded. It's ingrained.
Step on the little man to get ahead, prove your place by ostracising the witch, genocide/crusade/colonise to acquire land and spread your religion, fabricate wars to steal resources, vote for the leaders who hate the same people you hate, etc.
It might not be all of us who do this, but it's always been the majority and they keep winning.
Any attempt at a moral and just society full of like minded people, is always going to end by power games and needless cruelty, either from the people within it or from the people outside it.
That's just how we are as a species. Collectively, we suck.
It's guilt by association for those of us who aren't needlessly cruel and power hungry, but it's still valid as we will never be able to escape these systems of oppression created and upheld by the rest of our species.
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Did someone fucking print this tweet out and then scan it?
It was so good that I faxed it to myself at work.
"How do I install this tweet!?" - some grandma still using AOL dialup
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This enemy classification includes the settler/colonialist workers in the Amazon who are working as the frontier of capital accumulation.
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