Re: Interesting piece in Off-G about the perils of environmental astroturfing - Archived Message
Posted by dereklane on October 9, 2019, 7:41 am, in reply to "Interesting piece in Off-G about the perils of environmental astroturfing -"
The article touches on how I felt in recent discussions (bourgeois vs working class reactions to upper class attitudes). Everything comes down to class, and the best argument the elite have against it is belittling that idea. And, later discussions on climate change (and earlier ones on population control), and missing both the fact that the latter is motivated by rich white westerners who put the problem and solution in the arena of the non white poor majority globally, and the former could in part be offset by pollution control. The general narrative on pollution control has however, nearly disappeared (and seems to have been ignored when I've brought it up here, which suggests to me how effective narrative misdirection can be) in favour of climate change. We can see the effects of pollution and environmental destruction and we can solve them. We can do that on an individual basis, and we can force change on a larger scale. To solve climate change we either need to crush capitalism or force the capitalists to do techno engineering to alleviate it (a terrible idea!). I don't believe this is incidental that pollution has been discarded as pointless i. Favour of cc jibber jabber (because nothing I've heard from authorities has offered meaningful solutions, or shoots them down as soon as they appear).
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