Arson turns Amazon reforestation project to ashes
Arson turns Amazon reforestation project to ashes
It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in Brazil.
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The human race will get what it deserves. You think everyone will accept climate change after it kills a billion+ people?
Except it isn't "humanity", it is a tiny percentage of (generations of) rich fucks destroying the planet for profit, and maintaining a (completely artificial) system that feeds off of oppression, exploitation, greed and selfishness.
When you blame "humanity" you also blame those living in the Amazon trying their best to save it, as well as every other poor bastard born in to this world with no power or means of getting it.
These generalisations only serve to keep the rage from its rightful target.
Except this arson wasn't done by rich people. It was locals who want to use the land for farming cattle.
Absolving individuals for their behaviours is a great way to go nowhere. We all make choices
And they probably did that because they have no other viable way of living, because they're exploited by the rich. There's no excuse for what they did, but there's never only one person to blame for a disaster of such scale.
Theres only one person to blame and that's the person who lit it on fire. It's very convenient for no one except the ultra rich to have any agency in the world but it's not how reality works
I argue that agency is proportional to wealth. Money is power. Everyone has at least some amount of agency, but the ultra wealthy have exponentially more power to create change and affect the world.
Redistributing wealth from wealthy back to average people is also redistributing agency and responsibility back to average people.
While the influence from the elite is undeniable, I also hope you don't subscribe to the idea of the noble savage.
I'm sure the planet cares about the technical difference. They are humans therefore part of humanity. You can save your speech.
"it's so much easier for me to cast a wide net, that way I get to distance myself enough from the problem so that I don't need to bother acting, and you pointing it out makes me uncomfortable, stop it"
The planet doesn't care about anything whatsoever, it's a giant space rock
If we dont rise up and do something about it, we definitely deserve it all.
Nope, it feels like most people are too far gone for that and they'll never accept it. All thanks to these dumb politicians that took bribes to cover it up for years and years. Thanks for making our futures so much worse...