Captain ObservantI'm not living in fear, I'm living in facts.
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ColinYou can solve any problem with a sufficiently large trebuchet and sufficiently loose definition of "solve".
Leftist LawyerThe conventional wisdom in the west over the last 200 years has been singularly focused on one paradigm -- the American dream. Get mine. Get rich. Get out. More. More. More More. More. We glamorize those with excess.
This is the left's challenge. If we ever want to be politically ascendant again, our sole aim has to be pathologizing excess.
Personally, it viscerally impacts me. I see a Mercedes and I want to punch the driver in the throat. THE ONLY PURPOSE is to tell the world: "I'm better than you."
Excess wealth is mental illness. It speaks to deep narcissistic insecurities and sociopathic disregard for the needs of others. It's our job to make this the new conventional wisdom.
“It should no longer appear that planting trees in the rainforest makes the industrial production of a car, the organisation of a soccer World Cup or the production of cosmetics climate neutral. This deception is now a thing of the past. This is a great success for the environment, the climate and consumers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/eu-bans-misleading-environmental-claims-that-rely-on-offsetting
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/eu-bans-misleading-environmental-claims-that-rely-on-offsetting
David HoWhat if fixing #climate doesn't mean doing everything the same way, except with less CO₂ emissions, but fundamentally changing the way we interact with nature and with other people?
Anirvan Chatterjee“By the early 1960s, 3M knew the chemicals didn’t degrade in the environment. 3M knew by the 1970s its chemicals were widely present in the blood of the general U.S. population.”
elle mundyconsumerism is only like 100 years old
CelloMom On Cars"Corporate media remain dependent on revenues from advertising by energy companies and industries that are particularly reliant on fossil fuels, such as auto manufacturers and airlines. That economic dependence helps explain the lack of critical news reporting about fossil fuels and their catastrophic impacts."
“For decades we’ve been telling people to change their behaviour without saying: ‘Change your behaviour.’ We’ve been saying ‘be more green’ or ‘fly less’, but meanwhile all of the things that drive behaviour have been pushing the other way. All of these subtle cues and not so subtle cues have literally been pushing the opposite direction – and we’ve been wondering why nothing’s changing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists #endadvertising #climate #overshoot