next time I hear “there is just too many (brown) people” i swear
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and their customers have nothing to do with it? Does this person just completely not understand what a market is?
Yes, if we just shoot the CEOs, the customers will magically stop wanting fast fashion, fast food, waste amounts of cheap meat, cheap and new electronics every year…
I don’t disagree that it would have a positive effect, but I hate the overly reductive takes on systems being completely disconnected from the people. We need to realize that our (western) life style is simply not sustainable, capitalism or not. That requires serious changes for everyone, not just the “rich”.
Keep cutting off the heads of these companies and eventually no one will take the jobs
Something I think about from time to time: if everyone would boycott TicketMaster for a year, TM would vanish.
It’s really not a big ask for people to skip sports and concerts for one year. Buy merch from struggling artists if you’re worried about them.
But, this will never happen because of FOMO and selfishness. They’ll just bitch about the monopoly while giving them endless money.
The people have massive power if they pull together. But ‘fuck you, I got mine’ is the primary American motivation.
If only there was like a deck of cards with their faces on it.
So you’re saying me taking out some replaceable oil execs is going to make people have less demand for oil and everything that comes from it?
But there isn’t a “demand” at least not as much as years ago. We are trying to switch to renewables but the oil execs keep killing the renewable progress. The horse fucker in the white house won’t let us move on. He kills wind and solar and forces the coal plants to stay open.
People keep curling out small humans, so oil-derived fertiliser is the only thing preventing a famine that would kill billions.
You could argue it, but at the same time no one prevents you from going to AliExpress and buying cheap solar. The fact that US decided not to invest, does not mean solar on global scale is doomed. Rest of the world is doing pretty well
And that horse fucker won more votes than Kamala.
There’s a whole party where resistance to green tech is one of the items of faith, hundreds of millions of people. Not just a handful of oil execs. (And yknow, the millions who still use gasoline in their cars etc.)
Edit: That’s not to mention all those who like to fly places.
Recycling is a con to make you feel guilty and let Chevron off the hook.
Solar energy used to be a similar con and look at it now.
How was solar a con? It produced energy, as intended. It’s gotten gradually even better at producing energy through better photovotaics, batteries, molten salt concentrated solar, and kinetic batteries (pumping water uphill during the day, running electro-hydralic power generation at night). But it was never a lie.
Plastic was never recyclable. It’s been burned in the open air in China and Indoneisa ab initio.
You can argue that glass, cardboard, and aluminum can be effectively recycled, but in the context of climate change and fossil fuels, we are taking about petroleum-based plastics. There are too many different kinds of plastic and the cost of recycling versus the cost of new material meant recycling was a chimera from the beginning.
Australia’s national resource recovery rate in 2022–23 was 66%. This comprised 63% recycling, 0.2% waste reuse and 3% energy recovery, mostly associated with the use of landfill gas for generating electricity. In 2016–17, the resource recovery rate was 61%
For clarity, the resource recovery rate is the proportion of generated waste that is allocated to waste reuse, recycling or energy recovery.
In 2024, Australia’s material footprint per capita was around 31.1 tonnes, the lowest it has been since 2010 (37.6 tonnes).
Australia’s Circular Economy Framework, 2024 sets a target to shrink per capita material footprint by 10% by 2035.
I would get banned on Reddit if I said what I wanted to say about this situation, would I get banned here too?
Depends on the instance. For example: I can say, “we should all get together and murder these people for what they have done to us” and I would likely only get banned from this community or the instance that hosts it. My home instance simply wouldn’t care
It’s a reminder that large problems are often tied to concentrated power. Holding systems accountable while still pushing for collective change is probably the most constructive path forward.
that feels, for some reason, profound.
I mean, sure let it be 200 or 400, 1000. It’s still a rounding error compared to all of humanity.maybe that is why there is a period of prosperity after large wars. The losing side being wiped out reduces that number by half and everyone can breathe a bit more freely.
Those people never die in the wars. The reason there are periods of prosperity after wars is because when many young adults have died, labour has more bargaining power.
damn. somehow my version, which is pretty dark, is still not that dark.
There also tend to be periods of great prosperity following plagues, due to inheritances and what not. But capitalism has made sure to rinse you of every past penny to prevent generational wealth from being passed down to the poors… So that didn’t happen after COVID
Ps. Fuck magnum pi and kurt browning for scamming seniors out of their homes and into reverse mortgages
Wait what did Magnum PI do? We’re not talking about the mustachioed investigator, right?
I honestly have to wonder at what point people will collectively say “why the hell are we letting them do this” ? Not sure what happens after that, but it seems like it must have to happen at some point, right? Right?
Because the people in positions to do something about it get paid by the evil doers to make sure business is as usual
Because the average American and European feels their convenient lifestyle is more important than the life of the planet. They’ll talk the talk about the environment, but they won’t walk the wall with their votes or actions.
Please do not put Europeans in the same pot with US Americans. These days are altogether over but for the topic of fighting climate change things were different for quite a while.
You are. Don’t pretend you aren’t, on climate issues. You’re doing more than the usa, yes, but no where even close to enough.
If so then we are all in the same pot. Who is doing enough or more than that?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-renewable-energy-by-country-in-2022/
I would say anyone who is above 70% renewables is potentially on track. But you need to take heating and cars into consideration for usage, as well as the carbon impacts of imports and various industries… So really,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
Including this information, maybe some random small African nations.
I was recently at a kind of convention on the topic of “how to build a sustainable society”. There were two ~40 yr old ladies in the row in front of me.
One got out this super shiny copper flask. The lady next to her was like “oh that looks nice!” and they start talking about it. The lady that got it out said something about copper, its health impacts blabla and how she got it last week from Amazon.
And I’m just sitting there, holding it together, almost laughing out of frustration, about this whole situation.
Like, maybe she did actually need a bottle to hydrate herself outside, but…
Never underestimate the power of inertia. Some people live their entire lives on it.
someone needs to mangione them
Eh kind of hard to feel solidarity when the majority of people still want to hurt queer people regardless of how much money they have
Majority?
Nah Those that actively want to hurt people from the lgbtq+ is small.
It’s still puts the group at a higher risk of identity based hate crimes.
But it’s not a majority. Even people who disaprove of it don’t actively wish harm on the rainbow people
Kind of. It’s the system they operate under, capitalism.
Get rid of those specific people and you would have others people take their place.
However, not to say that it isn’t worthwhile to also bust out the guillotines
If you bust out the guillotine, the people who replace them will behave as if they’ve seen what happens when the guillotines get busted out.
Renewables+nuclear is cheaper and in a truly free market would beat out oil
Cheaper is not the same as more profitable. It’s an important distinction. You can’t own and control the sun and charge people to harvest the energy. Monopolizing and gatekeeping are the end goals of capital owners.
Unless you think the Chinese market is more free. They’re producing solar panels like crazy.
Oil is only profitable for the people producing oil, which is not most people
That’s… the point
Then? More people have the incentive to break from this than not
OK. Oil is only profitable for a select few people now. Why don’t we rise up in arms to change production and seize the means of production now? More people have incentive to now than not (most people are not oil billionaires), why doesn’t it change?
Coercion through state violence, a propaganda apparatus telling you the only way to structure society is through capitalism, and treats to sedate the masses from revolting against their living conditions.
A magic nebulous “more free” market doesn’t change that.
Would you say the health industry is exactly the same after Luigi?
Exactly? Of course not
Almost exactly? Yes
And every year they gather in one specific location in Switzerland called Davos.
