Jürgen HubertJan 14

Again and again, I see the notion that humanity is committing "collective suicide" because we are not acting on #ClimateChange and other forms environmental destruction.

I do not accept this thesis. This is not suicide, it is murder - perpetrated by the oligarchs of this world and others who want the #FossilFuel economy going for their own profit.

And they have invested _massive_ amounts of money into propaganda to keep this system running. Not just by funding climate change denial - but also by promoting the concept of the individual "carbon footprint". Essentially, they have socialized the risks and privatized the profits, tricking us into believing that _we_ are to blame for not doing enough as individual persons, rather than _them_ for creating and perpetrating the system.

This is part of the "personal responsibility" ideology pushed by those who already own most of the world, but still want more. If _we_ as individuals share in the blame for _their_ decisions, even though _they_ gain all the benefits from them and we do not, then that means we would have to fight _ourselves_ to save the world - rather than the true villains of this story.

So let's put the accountability where it belongs, okay?

Show threadRichard Michael Blaber
@juergen_hubert But we DO bear responsibility. Are we without agency? Who is it who allows the oligarchs to continue with their exploitation? Who allows them to maintain their wealth, their power & their privileges? If we don't rise up in revolt against them, we acquiesce in the system that creates the #climatechange, the environmental destruction, the loss of #biodiversity, & the social injustice.
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Show threadJürgen HubertJan 14

@rmblaber1956

We _do_ share some responsibility, but it is in proportion to the power we have to affect things.

The people who have the most power but prioritize their own profit over the well-being of the planet have the most responsibility for this state of affairs.

Show threadRichard Michael BlaberJan 14
@juergen_hubert Agreed - but they need to be deprived of that excessive power. If they aren't, & I fear they won't be, the result will a calamitous ecological catastrophe, where those least responsible for it will suffer the most. That is already the case, in fact.