• thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Conclusion of the article sums it up best:

    “Our true responsibility is to use our choices as political agents in the world to try to shift power, take power away from the people who are blocking the transition away from fossil fuels and give it to people who will lead into a livable future,” [Genevieve Guenther, the author of “The Language of Climate Politics”] said.

    Do what you can by yourself, sure, but only as a supplement to doing the hard work to solve the problem via collective and political action.

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      3 months ago

      I agree.
      But the corporations and companies that have done most of the polluting need to clean their messes up if there’s going to be any change.

      You, nor my neighbor, nor any of our friends dumped so much crap into nearby rivers and lakes that everything is poisoned. The corporations and companies did it.