Andy

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin

You are utterly powerless to stop this, even at your most self actualized, mobile, and focused you are fundamentally incapable of changing what needs to be changed.

This is flat out wrong.

You’re missing the point, because your scale is off. I’m not trying to change the planet. I’m trying to change my city and neighborhood. I’m not trying to hold back the tides. I’m trying to teach the next generation the resiliency to survive a long road to something better.

Those goals are totally in my reach. I can’t save billions, but I can definitely save dozens. Perhaps hundreds over the next century. And if enough of us do that, collectively we CAN save billions.

And somewhat ironically, the “our species can still turn it around! live in hope!” types are the same ones deadset against revolution to force those living large off destroying the planet to stop in a physical way.

I feel like it’s the other way around. I feel like it’s my people who are out there getting arrested and making fossil fuel execs upgrade their security detail, and it’s the doomers who seem to complain endlessly about how much they hate the taste of shoe leather while somehow spending the most time down there.

So do I understand correctly that this is a Principal Component Analysis of the amount of SLRPNK.net users who comment on other instances? This is very cool.

Thanks for sharing this. I would also crosspost to the c/meta.

Okay well then where’s the problem? If there’s no point in trying to fight climate change while capitalism exists, then end capitalism. I don’t understand where we disagree.

I’d still be curious to know whether a mist is comfortable and how much water it consumes.

You know, the podcast The Climate Denier’s Playbook had a great episode recently on Malthusianism in the environmental movement, and did a great job clowning on how it’s totally divorced from science.

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-climate-deniers-playbook-5383970/episodes/theres-just-too-many-people-217380178

Yeah. You can find it on our website: https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/resources .

Definitely do! It’s a fast read. I couldn’t put it down (which is all the more remarkable because of how dark it is).

Fully Automated. It’s a tabletop role playing game. I originally posted this to the Lemmy community for the game, but cross posted it because I wanted more people to talk to about the book.