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Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals

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Karl Marx:

"Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals?CMP=share_btn_fb


--- Quote ---These pervasive exhortations to individual action — in corporate ads, school textbooks, and the campaigns of mainstream environmental groups, especially in the west — seem as natural as the air we breath. But we could hardly be worse-served.

While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71 percent. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet.

The freedom of these corporations to pollute – and the fixation on a feeble lifestyle response – is no accident. It is the result of an ideological war, waged over the last forty years, against the possibility of collective action. Devastatingly successful, it is not too late to reverse it.
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kongo:

green house gas is NOT epic !

Karl Marx:

--- Quote from: kongo on July 17, 2017, 10:27:14 PM ---green house gas is NOT epic !

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It sure isn't.

Master Matthew²:

How can global warming be real if the earth isn't a globe but actually an oval?
Checkmate Communists

The Resonte!:

how are individuals taking shorter showers and stuff suppose to make up for the global powerhouse that is industry

like india and blah

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