In one word, capitalism?
Not as a whole. Like fuck capitalism, but it’s too big fish to chew
“Dont say termites are eating your porch. There are billions of termites that are not eating it.”
Kinda hate that analogy because you’re basically saying that destroying the environment is just the natural way all humans are.
That’s the literal point of the OP - that humans are vast and diverse and lots of them give a shit and aren’t trying to actively harm everything around them. The Internet makes you think the worst of humanity represents all of it.
I on the other hand find it extremely accurate. Termite in the untouched nature wont eat the house, but build one there and it will take a bite.
Hidden village in the amazon can live in harmony with nature, but give them some gas, electric lights and aggregate and i bet that bad boy will be running a lot.
FUCKING YES. Those shitbag corporations will do whatever it takes to take the blame off themselves and push whatever narrative it takes, including the “hUmAn BaD” trope. Specifically board executives of those oil corporations are to blame, not only for the very nature of their business, but the shameless disinformation campaigns they spew everywhere, disingenuous lobbying, straight up bribery, astroturfing, and fomenting fascism worldwide to keep leeching their government handouts for as long as possible. Those energy corporations and the scum that run them in the decision making positions are the fucking enemy of humanity and life on earth.
As much as I hate oil companies, it’s not them driving around in multi-ton dick replacements, or throwing away their consumer electronics every year to replace it with even shittier products. There is a lot of blame to go around, enough for the corporate overlords and the shitty people falling for their shtick.
Welllllll, once again, this is gonna be on the shitbag corporations building/pushing this shit. With the planned obsolescence, pointless annual “tech refreshes”, aggressive marketing, and ultimately with the overcharged culture of consumerism, this falls back to the big corporations and the irresponsible perpetuation of an economic machine that is never satisfied. To say that people are stupid or shitty for literally buying into said machine I think greatly underestimates the capacity the average human has to be influenced without knowing/understanding it regardless of how intelligent or wise they are. The social dynamics pushed by these corporations are things that generally fly under the radar and faces little scrutiny. I guess there are probably people out there that genuinely are dipshit bootlickers in terms of perpetuating the system from the bottom, but I would compare their influence to getting angry at one leaf on a tree for creating all the damn shade. Our time and energy are wasted on people like that. Ultimately, it’s the system that is to blame. Sure, they participate in the system, but they weren’t the ones to mold the system into what it is.
There’s a reason I specifically pointed the blame at the decision makers at these corporations. Because when we recognize that the cause of all these problems is specifically the system, well then the people who are the real problem become quite clear. Who in power is doubling down on the harmful aspects of the system? That right there is your enemy.
Boy do we like fighting each other here on the left
Capitalism.
I just automatically translate ‘humans’ on this context to ‘conservative Americans’… it’s right more often than not. Sometimes it’s just ‘conservatives’ and others just ‘Americans’.
Apologies to the 40,000,000 Americans who are probably accusing really nice people.
Nah, I know at least in Australia we have our own shitheads like Palmer and Gina who are destroying the country. I don’t know enough about NZ to know who yours are, but I’d bet $100 you’ve got some as well.
Yeah, we have our current conservative government coalition which seems to be salivating over what happening in the US.
Cars, single-family homes, and beef is causing climate change. And not in that order.
While not good, those are all small fry issues in comparison.
Beef agriculture uses the same amount of landmass as all of North America. Not small by any measure
