• Juice@midwest.social
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    4 hours ago

    Who are we? Like why am I accused of being addicted to oil? I’m not part of that, I don’t make those decisions. Neither do you, or you would change it, as would I. What do you or I have to do with the price of oil, or where wars get started that drive the prices for it up? And when the prices go up – who gets rich, and who gets screwed?

    Its the corporations and militaries that do like 80-90% of pollution. We aren’t addicted to power because we don’t have any, except a few gallons of fuel per week, maybe, if you can afford it.

    Its a little late to be giving the malaise speech. The only sane environmentalism is Socialist De-Growth.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s not really malaise; if there was a societal will in this country we would pass laws mandating green energy adoption. But we, as a society, do not. You or I may not have much individual impact, but the government and corporations are us when you get down to it. We all stand complicit because as a collective we do not want to experience the pain of giving up our luxury.

      Edit: By we I refer to American citizens.