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?

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@juergen_hubert Yep. The whole concept of a "carbon footprint" came from a 2004 marketing campaign for BP, among the world's largest oil companies. The idea was to deflect responsibility for climate change by individualizing the problem, thereby delaying action against the major polluters. Since 1988, 100 companies have been the source of 70% of the world’s greenhouse emissions, and only 25 corporate or state-owned entities have been responsible for more than half of global industrial emissions.
Jan 14 at 5:33pmWeb