I don't know man. I know some of those kids in Africa, and they don't all prioritize the environment over things like food and shelter.
For sure, but when we total up the list of top contributors, they're nowhere near the top. So let them, because they're not "the cause".
I think that comment was sarcastic.
Yes, but sadly also no. They don't play in the big leagues, but taken over the whole continent it adds up.
Neither is the average human being anywhere, just trying to survive a hostile narcissistic environment they have no control over
Rich people are destroying the planet. It's nobody else's fault.
Let's call that greedy people. I would not mind them being rich if they chose to be a little less rich to pay their people well and earn their money while respecting the environment and protecting the climate.
It could be. We might be stabbing it with a pretty scary knife it wouldn't survive, but the capitalists stuff a hydrogen bomb down its throat every day so that doesn't really matter.
literally nobody thought that was the case. this is just holier-than-thou fartsmellery.
For climate activists it's very unlikely, but there are people who believe Africans are the issue because of high birth rates, conveniently ignoring that richer countries do the most damage by far.
are you sure about that? the "oh, humans are so evil, we’re destroying our planet! i wish all humans were dead" sentiment is extremely common
yeah that's called ecofascism. it's about as well thought through an ideology as anarchocapitalism.
i mean, it has its roots in how we discuss climate change. we call it "human-made", so yes, people will jump to "humanity is to blame for climate change". it’s a very logical leap, and not entirely wrong, even if it doesn’t tell the whole story (which part of humanity is responsible?)
i feel like that part comes naturally. it's pretty easy to go from "i'm trying to help" to "no matter how much i help i can't make a difference because the system makes it useless" to "who designed the system?"
Yes, but much more commom
"Humans are destroying the planet" has been a great way of off-loading the social responsibility aspect from multi-billion dollar gas guzzling AI-generated farts factory to Grandma, who forgot to put out her recycling last week.
the prefix "some" is implicit there. but also, like, the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars. it's just that the hundreds of container ships going around the world is a way bigger problem still.
the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars
Sure. But it's not the individual commuters who are setting national transportation policy.
The folks driving the sports cars (and in the yachts and private jets), on the other hand...
that's why i continued my post. to illustrate that the issue is not the individual within the system, but the system itself and the people who shape it.
I do agree that this is very rare take from climate activists. Those folks usually know their shit and are pretty radical.
However, this line of reasoning is definitely a thing among laypersons. It has historical precedent that has its roots in Malthusian population theory.
Thinking about how people say humans are inherently parasitic and Mother Nature is going to get rid of us as punishment
Unfortunately the misanthropic sentiment is the foundation for a whole plethora of ecofascist tendencies, both intentionally and unintentionally so, that are shockingly common.
Did someone fucking print this tweet out and then scan it?
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Right!? Why is it slightly askew?
There's one word that combines the three and more.
Well akshually, the rising standard and of living in the developing world in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular means that kids in Africa are contributing to climate change. Now when you ask why kids in Africa can't fuel their improving standards of living with solar panels instead you're going to end up at these things, but still.
maybe if yall spent less time on wordplay and more time on finding out where these people live something might get done
Oh, we know where they live. You'll see. We just need critical mass. A revolution doesn't happen over night and certainly not all at once everywhere.
It's easy to forget that sadly most people do no support actually doing anything about it at all. Either they'd rather believe it's OK, or they'd rather believe that we're nearly winning.
This enemy classification includes the settler/colonialist workers in the Amazon who are working as the frontier of capital accumulation.
I thought Amazon workers for a bit and was thoroughly confused
Yeah, libs have been slipping on the eco-fascism like a pair of custom-made shoes.
Its easy to criticize, but when you ask for a solution, they've got nothing. Literally zero.
Except for a large scale die off of humanity.
something something, the planet can only support 1 billion
As if 80% population loss is somehow a solution
Uh... who's "they?" Because I've seen plenty of people propose solutions (usually some combination of renewable energy and environmental protection at the national level).
AI datacenters woth their gas turbines
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