Climate change is basically the debt incurred by colonialism/capitalism.
A Sri Lankan breh breaks it down
A Sri Lankan breh breaks it down
Capitalism = Colonialism = Climate Change
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mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Any discussion about global warming in the global north has to be some kind of retribution to the global south.
He's entirely right.
And both capitalist and neo-colonialist institutions are driving a "growth" narrative that is only going to exacerbate conditions.
Like Jacon Hickel has pointed out - degrowth, along with the end of colonialism and neocolonialism - is the only potential way to stop global warming from progressing.
Less is More
And both capitalist and neo-colonialist institutions are driving a "growth" narrative that is only going to exacerbate conditions.
Like Jacon Hickel has pointed out - degrowth, along with the end of colonialism and neocolonialism - is the only potential way to stop global warming from progressing.
Less is More
Yeah, as I keep telling folk, we can't tech our way out of this shyt. Every "technology" solution to global warming just ends up either speeding up growth or creating other environmental issues. The only way to stop the environmental damage (not just global warming but the rest of it too) is to pull back from the constant-growth model of everything, and you can't stop that constant growth until you deconstruct modern capitalism.
Drip Bayless
Superstar
Facts.com
Dude is very good at making his position easy to understand
When he said "US and Sri Lanka have the same life expectancy, so what the fukk is your GDP for?" I damn near lost it
Dude is very good at making his position easy to understand
When he said "US and Sri Lanka have the same life expectancy, so what the fukk is your GDP for?" I damn near lost it
Majestyx
Duck Season
Blaming an ism for humanity's faults seems to be a way to absolve those who don't subscribe to the ism.....or at least pretend to not subscribe to it.
"De-growth" is a pipe dream.
We either "tech" our way out of it or its a wrap.
And, if it is a wrap....its humanity's fault. Not some ism.
"De-growth" is a pipe dream.
We either "tech" our way out of it or its a wrap.
And, if it is a wrap....its humanity's fault. Not some ism.
blame humanity for a parasitic system implemented by a ruling class through force, coercion, and tech superiority
blame humanity for a parasitic system that collapses if ROI on capital investment is not sufficiently high and must continually perpetuate those same ills it is based on
couldn't be me
blame humanity for a parasitic system that collapses if ROI on capital investment is not sufficiently high and must continually perpetuate those same ills it is based on
couldn't be me
Then people gotta stop having 3+ kids in a household. There is no such thing as population growth that is infinite.
Insensitive
Superstar
Our lives are ruled by "isms", if we define the "ism" as a function that Humanity pours their resources into
while building their lives around that ism and it's output.
"teching our way out" sounds awfully a lot like a technocracy and/or futurism, so in the end, it's still some kind of "ism".
Capitalism is a system driven by continuous growth and as growth has been defined for many countries
that involves rushing into industrialization in a bid to keep up with or catch up to the west. So the same story repeats
even if the people/culture is different whether that's 19th/20th Century America or the east in the 20th century.
Another way to put is: RIGHT NOW, at this very moment, we have access to more computing power that at any point in history
with access to vast swaths of information with a tap or swipe of the fingers but all those computational resources much like the monetary
ones and the physical ones are currently being pointed at making more money for a given business the environment or the human cost
be damned.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Teching your way out doesn't start the clock over and buy you more time to determine a solution, it simply speeds the clock up.
Depends on the tech.
Kenny West
Veteran
Does this tech you're banking on exist in a reliable form?
I think it will be some variation of/or an advancement in current technologies. Wouldn't be surprised by a breakthrough out of nowhere either.