Comradeship // Freechat

oh, consumers are doing more than enough. we sacrifice ourselves - including those with health conditions - meanwhile BP commits another oil spill from the comfort of their air conditioned offices.

We're not going to fix the world with well wishes. There's a reason the only countries that are within climate targets and still develop are socialist countries (Cuba and China, and maybe others). Europe decides to block cheap Chinese solar panels, and has been doing so since the 2000s, because they have to "protect" local companies. Local companies artificially pump up prices, nobody can afford solar panels so nobody installs them (we don't get enough sun in most places to make the investment profitable for 10 to 15 years), and the problem persists. Then they turn around and ask us to 'stop preheating the oven when you put a pizza in it' to help manage their abysmal, dead-end nonexistent 'energy policy'.

If we had allowed Chinese panels 20 years ago every house in Europe today would be solar-powered.

Meanwhile the US Army commits another toxic chemical spill in an island they illegally occupy and just says "oopsie! guess y'all will pick up the tab"

I'm not a fucking chump, no one is. I know you are not either. I would never shame or belittle someone for doing what is necessary to protect their health in this climate. Individual reduction just means the big, actual polluters can pollute more because we, the people, offset it with their shitty carbon credits. The guy who coined carbon credits later 'regretted' them - after all the damage was done, of course. He never stopped to think about it beforehand.

Agitate, organize, revolutionize. That's what you can do as an individual. Mutual aid too as the climate gets more and more extreme.

But we're not going to fix capitalism by repairing our old electronics and mending our clothes. This is a behavior that emerges when the economy is in crisis, not the climate.