MidwintersTombDec 13, 2024
PaulaToThePeople 😷

The 5 biggest drivers for extinction are:
* destruction of habitats
* monocultures
* pollution (microplastic, pesticides, heavy metals, forever chemicals, ...)
* climate change
* invasive species

In other words the single biggest driver for extinction is capitalist extractivism and exploitation.
We clear forests to build roads, cultivate monocultures to feed our live stock, burn fossil fuels to power our consumerism and put our waste in the ocean. That destroys the ecosystem, species become extinct or seek refuge somewhere else and become invasive there.

And with "we" I don't mean you or me - I mean the morbidly rich!
I'm not blaming anyone but the 1%. They are the ones that have everything and cause everything.

There are a lot of solutions for this crisis, but we can't realize them without creating a system that prevents morbid abundance.
If the 99% decide to eat less meat, so we don't need so much land for our food - will that really save the rainforests or will it just free up more land for the rich to build more golf courses, factories and AI server farms?

We need to talk about a wealth maximum, an income maximum and an interest maximum. Then we'll realize we don't need endless growth, we don't need exploitation of the 99% and the ecosystem, we won't need 3 full time jobs to 'make a living' and we won't need mindless consumption to numb ourselves in our spare time.

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Dec 12, 2024 at 1:29pmWeb
Show threadsenecioDec 28, 2024
@PaulaToThePeople The word "we" is very dodgy in this context: first you write, that you mean only the "the morbidly rich", the 1%. But later on you write: "We don't need endless growth ..." Evidently a different "we"! My suggestion: name the 1% as what they really are: the big capital-owners and their top managers. But to use "we" for naming the rest of the society is also a problem: because this is a big crowd constisting of people with very different opinions, interests and goals. The problem is to collect those who have got some insight and to enlarge and consolidate their range by propagating correct analyses. It is not just about moralizing about "morbidity", but about revealing the laws of capitalist economy, which let capital be a blind "automat" whose mere - but horrible - agents are the 1%
Show threadTim MooreFeb 5
@PaulaToThePeople nor forget people who have lived for centuries in close dependence on the land being killed and having their landscape bulldozed because they were in the way of a wealthy few's vision of urban renewal and rivieras built over the bones of indigenous people.