Wow, not a fan of Nike generally, but i def learned a few new things from that burst of typespiration.
Theres a book called “Shoe Dog”, (i haven’t read it), about the beginning of Nike, maybe you should write a response book called “Dog Shoes - A Nike Exploitation story”.
This is a seething sort of rage I’ve developed watching Nike crunch up beloved friends of mine. And Nike’s not special. They’re every greedy for profit company killing the planet for nothing. And what will the rich have left when they’ve killed us all? A planet of ashes and billions of dollars they can’t exchange for goods and services because everyone who made their money is dead
Don’t worry, they’ll survive, so will the planet. Its less certain for the rest of humanity and many other plant and animal species though. /j (kind of).
Anyway, we’re doing your server and thus username no justice, commenting in such gloomy terms. Solarpunk is such a breath of fresh air into these issues. And where endemic power structures fail you already see its themes of strengthened community bonds quickly reestablish themselves and shine through.
Solarpunk also hits the nail on the head with iur societies key issue. Its the structural design of our societies elevating private ownership claims as superior to societal ownership claims, its imbalanced.
But Covid, financial crises, wars and now Climate change quickly prove the, so called, independently strong are actually only as strong as the societal strength holding them tall.
Sorry, went off on a tangent.
Sorry. Didn’t meant to make it sound like we can’t stop climate change. I more meant to stop climate change we need to stop big corporations. My optimism for the future is rooted in a resolve that our future can’t look like our present. There’s no quick fixes, no silver bullets, no easy solves. Climate change is a result if colonialism and if we want to put a stop to it or even reverse it we have to dismantle the idea that its fine for a fortune 500 company to treat everyone they interact with horribly and cover up how detrimental they are