I'm actually not a believer to a great degree in consumer activism. To clarify that, I think it's a perfectly just and ethical tactic, I just think it's placing the emphasis in the wrong spot. It shouldn't be up to consumers to regulate immoral corporations. Governments should be doing this stuff. Unfortunately, governments are too much in the pocket of unethical corporations, so it often does fall to the consumer to attempt to regulate.
This is good, little mini-rants by me will get my rant gland in shape so I can unleash an almighty fucking spray at the 1%. It's been a while. In fact, I think I'm a bit out of practice. I might not even be able to deliver that rant I promised. I'm a bit scatter-brained these days. sigh
First, fuck government. There is no just government.
Second, most of the reason for consumer crapitalism is that products are designed to be profitable, not sensible.
Trillions of people can be sustained at levels of affluence unimaginable today, but it will take sensible design.
I can appreciate ire at the 1%. Eat the rich!
However, suckups suckup, and this empowers leaders. People are like fucking dogs, pandering in the hope of tidbits from the master's table.
I don't have a bank account, because I refuse to contribute. In order to be here, I have to have the internet, so I pay for that, but it pisses me off that mesh networks aren't a thing.
I am not attacking you, as I am certain you are as offended as am I.
But involuntary government IS the enemy. Is there a voluntary government? Not one recognized by other governments! Therefore there is NO just government.
The worst is when government officials, as Ronald Reagan did, say 'government is the problem', and then receive the support of panderers while they use government to crush freedom.
Obama did the same.
I am dedicated to the proposition that I am free, and so are you.
Imma post on how Steemit can take over the world. Stop by in the next day or so and have a look.
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There's nothing wrong with government, per se, it's just the implementation that's gone so horribly wrong. Have you ever read George Monbiot's "Manifesto For A New World Order" (had a different title in the US, I think)? He gives an anarchist perspective on the role that government can, and should, play. My views align a lot with his. The reality is that localism isn't a solution to world scale problems. You don't solve global warming by composting and running a fuel efficient car. It's not going to happen.
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Sorry, bro, you lost me at (paraphrase) 'conspiracy to steal money'. I'm a former scientist who has looked at some of the data and trust the peer review system on the rest. We are at over 400ppm at the moment.
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The size of the number isn't the problem. It's the rate of change that is the problem.
I'm not going to engage in a meta-debate on @diabolika's thread. But I will conclude by saying that global warming is the single largest threat to farmer livelihood there is.
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Well, if you support your contention, I will discuss it. You didn't.
But... how long will the current rate of change have to continue before we reach a potentially harmful CO2 level? What makes you think CO2 drives temperature? I ask questions you don't answer, because you but recite what you have been told.
This is why I said 'look at the data'.
Good luck
Have you ever published? Faced pressure to 'massage' your data to support a political agenda? You can hardly publish anymore without being subject to it.
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You are downvoted. I want an explanation for the downvotes.
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In my own way, I don't buy these products from unethical corps, I don't have an apple gadget. I don't eat kellogs, I don't munch nestle bars. I don't even buy new clothes. I couldn't even take to eat grains right now because it makes me cry knowing what it takes to make those. I want to be wealthy so I can go to those farms, and provide livelihood and not be killed by the corporations' cops or military - because I have money. I can't believe some people commenting here don't even understand the truth and they still worry about my use of 'evil' word. Or compare their own farms to bloody farms. I am so fuckin' angry.
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