Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:
The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.
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@bwada @rcbo @aral you're right, though I wouldn't put it that strongly -- there's definitely a tension between the wants of capital and the needs of workers.
But that tension also exists in communism, because you end up with a new elite that can't be democratically removed, and they act as gate-keepers to the capital.
I think that it should be *possible* to have a social democracy that redistributes wealth to those who need it -- and there are societies that come close (eg. Scandinavia) -- granted, their economies are subsidised both by fossil fuels and exploited foreign labour. I think, that if the middle-classes in those countries could be pursuaded to settle for a life of scarcer material goods, and better social connections, then they could reduce their exploitative nature and become a close approximation of social democracy. To me, that seems more likely than a communist system with elites that don't exploit their power
There's no shortage of histrionics and delusions for sure. But rather than frame things by that, we can look at increasing awareness of how power operates, with the goal of implementing structures for the wider good. Avoiding wars, reducing environmental destruction etc etc. Basic stuff.
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