• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    4 months ago

    Hey I reduced my personal carbon footprint to 0

    Oh wait everything’s still fucked

    Turns out it was mostly big industry the whole fucking time

    The goal of personal virtue is merely not to be part of the problem. It’s not good enough for a bystander to say “I personally am not murdering this person” when someone is being stabbed to death before them (and those of us in the global north have countless ties to systems that are murdering the climate, so we are not exactly bystanders). The goal for those of us with any kind of resources of time, rights and a voice, must be being part of the solution, pushing for system change. To stop the murder.

    -Rebecca Solnit