itsalburton:

socalledunitedstates:

captainwindweaver:

axiological:

If every working-class person in the world decided this afternoon to install solar panels on their roofs and started biking instead of driving, the ice caps would still melt and the human race would still die off. It simply isn’t possible to end climate change while working within a system that sends all your products overseas in massive supertankers wrapped in unrecycled plastic that will be thrown in a landfill the moment it hits land - and practices like that aren’t going to go away because of your purchasing habits.

Nor are we gonna hit some magical point where using clean energy and reducing waste are suddenly the cheapest or most profitable option and so all the world’s big companies fall over each other to switch over. That has never been the case and never will be - the “free market” isn’t going to save us.

The fact of the matter is, this system needs to be torn down if our species is to survive. We don’t have time to delay the revolution anymore. Capitalism is extinction. 

The human race will die out, and sometimes I’m glad- the earth has given us life for so long and what have we done- destroy it

No, a handful of rich people are destroying it. A far, far larger number of people are fighting to protect it, and I don’t want them to suffer and die because we give power to the most greedy and least caring. We need to take that power away and put it in the hands of everyone equally, and build a society that cares about nature and about human lives more than it cares about profit. And we can do it too if we drop the defeatist attitude and get to work

Mankind has existed on this Earth for at least 200,000 years and we’ve been civilized for nearly 10,000. But it wasn’t until 500 years ago that some people started fucking-over the environment on a widespread scale in pursuit of fleeting material wealth

So if human existence doesn’t directly cause environmental devastation, then what IS causing the devastation? INDIVIDUAL GREED

Good fucking God, how many levels of stupid can someone be to despise their own species and wish its own destruction?

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