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in reply to Muse

...well, yes and yes.

The issue is how we're going to strangle the fossil fuel companies.

in reply to Muse

I'm dedicated since more than 30 years to @tierranietos @Jay Bryant. So, I'm literally not only dedicated to do what she call's for, and going to die on that hill, actually all my thought's are about how to foster the biodiversity, a detail even more important and completely intertwined in all this.
Believe me, besides kind applause nobody cares. Meanwhile I'm confined to whiteness how everything crumbles down while the project itself fails.

.. and no, you nore we will "strangle" the fossil fuel lobby, the free market system created a strange situation in which this civilisation and all of us have become kinda looney toons coyote, sitting in a suspension railway in mid air still building railways into nowhere.

sry

in reply to Muse

I wish the ignore feature worked properly.
in reply to Muse

It's far too easy to get disgusted and give up.

I have found that the easier it is for someone to give up, in that they have the means to not feel consequences for doing so, the more likely they will. Wealthy people more easily give up, white people more easity give up, men more easily give up, etc. This is of course a generalisation.

My great grandmother was a Suffragist. She did not see women get the vote. But I have the vote. It took a hundred years for women activists in the US to gain that vote, and yet, they did it. Think about how long it took people of African descent to gain freedom from slavery both within Western countries and within their own continent. Add to that how long it took them to gain the vote in those places where they were enslaved.

I understand people's anger and frustration. But if we want to make change, it's important to make these causes about what they will do for all of us and the future. Making it about each of us individually is too hard. "I didn't make a change in this one action...so, we all should give up." Of course trying to discuss this with someone who has given up is difficult, because now they don't want to be shamed for not staying the course.

"The researchers found that the commonly held belief that privilege leads to more positive worldviews is not strongly supported by the data. Contrary to expectations, there were weak correlations between indicators of privilege (being male, being wealthy, avoiding health issues, etc.) and positive primal world beliefs."

Privilege has a smaller influence on positive world beliefs than you think