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My climate guilt is real – but the actual villains keep getting away with it (yaleclimateconnections.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by solo@piefed.social to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back.

We don’t need more guilt. We need more power. We need bold, collective action, not individual blame.

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[–] solo@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see effective regulations being put into place to restrict capitalist exploitation. On the contrary, the regulations are in favor of capitalism, and capitalism is ferosiously distructive.

So, what I mean by saying organise is that due to the fact that neoliberalism has bought off politicians (political systems I should say) worldwide, it is important to organise ourselves in order to get rid of its eternal growth model, which is destroying life on this planet.

The Rojava example is one of my favorite approaches.

I have only lived in europe and these are the conclusions I've made so far.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

And by "Europe" you mean "the UK"? Because that may be relevant.

But in any case, then I'm trying to explain the wrong thing to the wrong person. Whether you look at this like an American or not, you're not one. You may or may not have noticed the differences I'm talking about, but you're not part of them.

You're just a performatively anti-system European who is conflating the current system with capitalism. Libertarian, I presume from your example (in the proper use of the word, as opposed to how Americans use it).

That's not the American way of looking at it I'm calling out in the article. The American way of looking at it is asking people to organize not because they're a countercultural movement, but because they see individual action repeated over many individuals as how collective action works. They may or may not be seeking a change of system or regime, but they see political action as something individuals do by themselves to nudge the government leviathan around.

This lady isn't saying organize the way you think about organizing as a leftie libertarian. It's not committees and assemblies and worker self-governance. It's bourgeois liberals complaining to the manager, to which they are entitled as paying customers, in enough bulk to force a specific change. Different things altogether.