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Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 1 week agoBut you’re doing the exact same thing with the same outcomes.
Do you consider yourself a virus? Your loved ones? Friends, family? Nobody sees themselves as a blight. It’s always society at large. It’s the decisions we make as a collective.
And then the question is why we are making such decisions. And that’s what i mean with the need for systemic change. It’s not inherent in humans to be like a virus.
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 week ago
Well, certain people do consider me to have some undesirable traits like ideas about getting our species off the planet, and if I didn't exist, I'd generate considerably less CO₂.
Uncomfortable though it may be, the latter applies to everyone I've ever known, cared about or who has cared about me.
And it is inherent. The singular purpose of certain genes is to make more of the same gene, and they've gotten very good at it. Humans and viruses are both emergent phenomena.
But then, I suppose if we don't leave, we don't spread the disease elsewhere... so OK. You're right. We should never ever leave...
And the only way to save the biosphere is to do something we're completely incapable of. We're screwed. Neat!
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 1 week ago
Let me try and put this into a bit of a different perspective. There is a huge effort to individualise global warming, to accomplish two things. First to guilt trip you and second to create apathy. Because it’s very easy to understand that what creates global warming isn’t going to be solved by changing your individual consumption patterns. And you’re completely correct.
80 percent of total human made greenhouse gas production is done by 57 companies. Who have increased, not decreased, their co2 emissions since the 2016 paris agreement. Because companies aren’t countries. They actually aren’t bound by any such agreements.
Imagine the future without those fuckers. It’s only a couple of companies. It’s not as if we need to destroy half of humanity or flee the planet. Chill out.