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As a front line environmentalist and human rights campaigner, who's been at it for over three decades, I have always been an advocate of Non Violent Direct Action, but that also included destruction of equipment and damage to property, when that damage doesn't threaten life or limb. On the other hand, we weren't offered the same from the state, police, corporations, or workers who always responded to us with violence, threats, threats of sexual violence, state sponsored violence and incarceration. Furthermore the 'I agree with your right to protest but disagree with the way you do it' argument is just the violence of silence.

@greycoloris7665

Жыл бұрын

Thx for your service.

@williamtayor9530

Жыл бұрын

@@greycoloris7665 thanks, but no thanks necessary. 😁

@searchingfororion

Жыл бұрын

"Silence is violence, if more people were screaming then I could relax - because a good brain 'ain't worth diddly if you don't have the facts. I sing sometimes, for the war that I fight - because every tool is a weapon... If you hold it right." Your last sentence reminded me of this - the similarity was uncanny.

@wesbaumguardner8829

Жыл бұрын

Destroying someone else's property is destroying part of their life as they had to work to attain that property and now they are going to have to spend more of their life to replace that property unless they can manage to hold you responsible for your destructive actions and force you to pay for the damages.

@alicedeligny9240

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@@wesbaumguardner8829 The World is being destroyed right now and it's not like anyone has really payed for it. That world is not just a part of our lives, it is out lives. So let them be angry if they want but this is beside the point.

Step one: build train Step two: build more train Step three: repeat

@theflyingspaget

Жыл бұрын

Autism 🤝 Leftism Obsession with trains

we have to normalise climate activism by not sensationalise it, but incorporate it in the fabric of our social life, instead of going shopping with friends and family, bring them to a rally, volunteer with them, insist insist insist

I have a good story here actually. I work at a public transport company. I noticed there were some things going unused then thrown away. I asked if I could use the barrels from the pile to grow some plants in at home. I was allowed to recycle the barrels and now I make quite a few different things out of them. I'm working on a water catchment and filtration system with the barrels as a base.

I needed to hear all of this, but especially the closing monologue (which i will not spoil, watch to the end to see what I mean)

I've seen quite a few good left-tube climate videos but this is the first one I've been compelled to actively share. We all need to walk ourselves through this process of grief and action.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

I think we all need a little hope.

Stop the violence. Stop discrimination. Stop pollution. Best solution. Stop having children.

I appreciate this video a lot! I'm disabled and limited in what I can do, for example, going vegan is just impossible for me. Disability and disordered eating means that I need to make sure I eat at all, let alone eat the perfectly climate conscious thing. And well, climate marches etc. are inaccessible for me. However, I can wear a sweater, and sit on the sofa with a blanket. I turned my thermostat down, added radiator foil to my radiators and added draft strips to my doors. My gas usage in the past few months has been 40% lower than it was last year. Some of that might've been relatively mild weather, but still! I can vote. I can buy less new things. I can separate my trash. I can at least do this! No matter who you are and what your situation is, there is *something* you can do.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for commenting this! And you can think about things & communicate your thoughts to others. The collective consciousness surrounding our vulnerability and also power needs to change & this is something everyone can help with :)

Thanks for reminding me that armies need bards to sing battle songs, and that in rock slang an electric guitar is also called an axe! As an old autistic punk goth misfit, that basically is terrible at anything else than write and play music (an intense lifelong special interest 😝), I always felt guilty to be unable to do something about the dire situation we're all in. I got no kids but 2 teenage nephews and I am scared for their future. Now I rewatched bands with musicians older than me contributing to the cause, with their wrinkles and white spiked hair... Dude, I want to become this type of old rebel! I thought I was too old (at 54) to be of any use. Maybe I was wrong... Thanks! ❤️

Before watching, based on the thumbnail I just want to mention this book: _The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below_ by Peter Gelderloos Also _Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century_ by Tom Wetzel, which argues for ‘Libertarian Ecosocialism’ similar to what Naomi Klein has advocated for edit: I’m also reading _White Skin, Black Fuel_ by Malm as we speak and it may well be the most thoroughly researched book on its topics I’ve ever encountered

I recently listened to an interview with an economist who said that to reduce consumption sufficiently in my country, our economy would have to go back to the state of the seventies, only we have better technology now. This would mean next to no change for poor people, who already don't fly on business trips or for vacation, or have many choices for food, clothes etc. This is how my parents grew up. They never went hungry, they had a plethora of activities in their free time, they had several vacations a year (granted, they went by train or car). It's not that different from how I grew up in the nineties. A lot of our consumption today is surplus that adds no extra value. Thanks for this thought- and hopeful video!

I am actually connected to someone who does run a fossil fuel business, and I am of two minds of sending this to them. I've been trying really hard to get them to change things but it's not that simple, and I don't think they're at the point where they can engage with this level of rhetoric (that I personally agree with, of course). However, I have been talking constantly with them, about leftist ideals, about building cooperative, democratic systems, about real environmental sustainability beyond just greenwashing, and about social justice. They are slowly coming around and in fact agree with a whole lot of things that I've told them, even acknowledging that capitalism as a system functions almost like monarchy, where the capital class chooses its own successors in a closed loop, and they admit that it is fundamentally unequal and unjust. On the other hand, they have neoliberal influences on their thinking from others around them, and the truth is that of course they still have an incentive to maintain a capitalist mindset. They know the harms of fossil fuels but I still feel like their strategy to move away from it is too complacent and not nearly urgent enough. They are also answerable to a lot of different parties; their workers, shareholders, the banks, and customers, so they do not have absolute power either. I would appreciate a response.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

it's cool that you're putting in the work talking to them! you could still send them the video along the lines of "you might not agree with everything, but if you want to understand my POV better..." - no one thing has to be The Thing that convinces them, it's a process :) And if someone who has material interests in the maintenance of capitalism can come round to the idea that it's still bad....that's hope-bringing!

Mica just keeps making videos that inspire me to be a better person. I love all of the helpful ideas for people at many different levels of power and influence. The way even the smallest actions can build and create a "heap" of radical change is just...moving. Thank you for this!

Good work, important work. Very glad I watched this. I often find myself paralyzed by reading bad news and feeling helpless, instead of watching or reading...stuff like this, that's imbued with hope and encouragement without naivete. Your smooth and calming presentation works perfectly for this topic, a topic that is often upsetting to hear about. Yeah, we can fight. We will fight.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! That's exactly what I was trying to achieve :D

Knowing my actions are limited even compared to other ordinary people like me, this has motivated me to try again. 💜

@silversam

Жыл бұрын

The channel "Pillar of Garbage" recently did a video about Andor that speaks to this feeling I have about action & revolution too, I recommend it

My mom is really into sustainability, so I'll share a couple of the things that she's done for inspiration. She's vegetarian, and does research on the few animal products that she does buy to try and only support companies that are doing work for the environment. Almost everything she owns is either from a thrift store or from a free pile on the side of the road. She has the privilege to flip furniture as a hobby, and then gives the refurbished furniture away to people who need it for free. She built a greenhouse (with help from friends) out of free/cheap windows that she got from people on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. She created a water collection system and uses rainwater to water the plants. Now she's helping one of her friends do a similar greenhouse project. In short, what skills do you have that can help? How can you adjust your supply to be more sustainable? For example, I'm not very interested in flipping furniture, but I love fiber crafts. I use partial skeins of yarn from neighborhood yard sales or thrift stores for all of my knitting and crochet projects, which gives all of my projects colorful stripes that I love while keeping leftover yarn out of landfills.

Dont give into despair, rather dream of a better world and take action because Dreams dont die.

Thank you for this video, truly inspiring. I have very much been on the front lines thoughout the last year; Protest, disruption, trespass and a little property damage thrown in too. My arrests are in the double figures and I spent a couple of weeks in prison. Videos like yours are part of what got me started down this path and what help keep me going. Maybe I'll see you out there one day, but these videos are definitely an important part of the revolution, another grain building towards the heap 💚

“Ought implies can”. There is a similar sentiment promoted by some guy in a shed in Florida - “Rule 303”, which is “If you have the means, you have the responsibility to act.”

I am currently training to be a town planner and I was so encouraged to hear planning being talked about in this context. You don't need to be a planner to get involved in planning and, in fact, the public are the ones who can influence local changes the most. My main piece of advice for those in the UK is to contribute your views when local plans are being drawn up. This is where the most local impact will be felt down the line: once the local plan is in place, it's much harder to argue against an individual development (like a huge new housing development with minimal eco credentials) because the policies that will support such developments are already in place! Hassle your local Councillor as they will likely attend planning committees and attend meetings with local planners. I have attended meetings with Councillors across the political spectrum who are actually quite reasonable when discussing climate change policies, but they always fall down to this: "But my constituents wouldn't support that...". Change their minds. Show them how many people in your area will support climate action. Ultimately, they answer to you.

A great reminder that we can all have an effect. Thank you for this.

Ohhh we cannot wait!

Commenting for the alg as I look into direct action organizations in my area!

You are criminally under-subscribed, and this is a criminally under-thumbs-upped video. Also, remember, if everyone does something and does it conspicuously, the 3.5% rule is a thing.

I avoided watching this for anxiety reasons. But I'm glad not to be alone in confronting climate grief and the thought that I alone will never be able to do enough. I need to put more faith in other people to help.

this video managed to both hit close to home and encourage me at the same time. you're good at that.

Besides me praising you, I also want to add my personal addition to your list of actions: - if you enjoy a vegan meal, talk about it. Especially if you are not a vegan. Change is not about all or nothing. If in every restaurant and on every village meeting there is already at least one vegan meal, that would be a great first step towards tolerance and understanding. You don't have to go fully vegan to save the world. If meat would become an ultimately cherished and praised resource, not a leftovers throw away thing, that would CHANGE the industry hence the way we treat animals hence the way we treat people who care about that, hence less division amongst our people. - If you are pregnant or have already a baby, consider using cloth diapers and elimination communication. It's amazing, how this little fellows can control peeing and pooing from the very start of their lifes. The diaper industry is very interested to change this knowledge and view, but as a mother of two and a monster load of research hours around it, I can say that it's a huge thing. First, we train babies to sh#@ into their diapers, then again we train them to undo that. The better the diapers, the longer this process, the more money can be harvested, the more waste will be produced. Cloth diapers might consume energy washing and might also be at parts with plastic, but it's another intention and another consequence. In the end, the baby will learn sooner not to use a diaper (around 8 months to 2 years instead of currently the age of 4 in average). - Another parenting thing I think about: Tell everybody you really don't want or need gifts around your baby. They are mostly new bought clothes, full of chemicals and produced under unfair conditions, and probably the wrong size or really soon not fitting anymore. Used clothes are with less chemicals, because they are washed out mostly, they are often as good as new, and your baby doesn't care anyway how it looks. - One more parent perspective than I'm good: Buy fairtrade chocolate for your kids. It's so ridiculous that the large brands targeting children produce products containing cocoa while their harvesting is based on child labor and slavery. No child should have to be advertised with products that are produced or contain child labor or slavery. We parents shouldn't have to fight against our children just because they are targeted with good advertisment for evil products. (Not sure if anyone will read it. But yeah, the depressed me is finally in an activated "let's fight it" mode again... And no, that doesn't mean I'll destroy property. But I'll start speaking my mind again, even if that means more loneliness and the feeling of "why do I even bother, no one seems to care" again).

The trailer has me psyched! I hope YT does what I've asked and notifies me in time to see this premiere. Looking forward to it!

This is so important, thank you so much for all the work that went into this video !

I want that self-sustained veganic solarpunk commune with space for individuals who don't need to socialize often. For now it seems like I am stuck in a Berlin full of cars. But luckily there are still other ways we can make an impact right now.

2:25 “ought implies can” is really interesting cuz I only ever see it seen as synonymous with “should”

Another wonderful Ponderful. Thanks for fighting the fight and putting so much work into it!

Thanks for the video, it's important to hear messages like this. So often is the conversation about global warming framed around inability and inevitability that we forget our own agency, however small. I wholeheartedly agree that revolutionary change is something that isn't spontaneous, but rather built through the collective actions of a whole population over time. It's crucial for us to understand that and to not give in to despair when our efforts don't promptly effect change because no matter how insignificant you might feel in the moment, you're definitely not going to be making waves when you're too depressed to get out of bed. I, uh, speak from experience...

"it's never too late to stop punching ourselves in the face" -Climate Adam

YAY I've been looking forward to this!

This video DOES fill me with hope ! Thank you !

best video of yours ive seen yet, great content and well communicated. thank you for making it

Thank you! This is an excellent rundown. Informative and moving. p.s. the best wren segue in history

thanks for the stuff you make! it's really good and the topics are interesting and cathartic to listen to.

Thanks. I have seen myself in the lady with glasses (sadly), anxiety has consumed a lot of things in my life that matter, including my personal fight with climate change but i cant keep doing this. I will fight

Amendment @ 1:01:49 ... if you own capital/land, give ownership to anyone who uses it for free. e.g. If you own a business, give it to your employees for free by turning it into a worker coop, and/or (if applicable) form a consumer coop that decides what the business produces.

more public transport would also be awesome for accessibility because disabled people who can't drive

More people need to see this. It's one of my favourite recent videos concerning the subject!

The part near the beginning where you ask, given the context of climate inaction, “should sabotage be considered self-defense?” Idk why but when you said that something kind of clicked for me: it seems like a lot of the time when these philosophical discussions happen in the mainstream discourse, the focus on abstract philosophical concepts & definitions seems to be deliberately centered in bad faith to deny the need for action-especially by talking heads/politicians/“moderates”. Like weaponized abstraction or something. I definitely think it’s a conversation worth having, especially amongst us leftists. Regardless of if it is *technically* self-defense or not, I will still (*ALLEGEDLY*) support direct action/industrial sabotage

Appreciate you & hope your reprieve over the holidays was rejuvenating & restful.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

Thank you it was!

You know, one watches lots of videos and usually you just nod in agreement because the videos you like are the ones that tell you what you already think. But this video really moved me in the direction of thinking more about what I can do about climate. It also made my eyes water. So, thank you.

Just saw your post about this video not doing well so I‘ll leave a comment. Loved it, by the way!

Thank you Ponderful.

This video put to voice so much of what's been occupying my thoughts 💚 Funny too 😅 Loved everything about this video and your previous climate one! 🤠

Ponderful, you are wonderful! That is a really great video, a video of change with a positive drive. Thanks for this!

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

Thank you for making this incredible resource for me to share with people. I am truly inspired to hope and to act in the unfortunately small ways that I can. I hope I can share this and inspire some of the people in my life to do the same.

Not a vegan, but I have gotten into the habit of eating plant-based and have encourahed my dad to start composting

Thanks for making this video. I really appreciate your work.

Thanks ❤ Did help, will share! ❤❤❤

I'm in court with the pink haired soup thrower at the end of the month (not for the same action) so I needed this.

Even if we ultimately fail, there is value in the struggle

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Wonderful video, thank you Mica. We can all play a part from the heart. May I humbly add to your list of suggestions another area people can focus on: the global military industrial complex. I don't have the stats handy at the moment, but I'm sure that the war machine has for a long time been the biggest carbon emitter, not to mention the utter horrors it produces in the name of elite greed. There is no sane reason for warfare anywhere, ever. We have to have to grow as a species to end our elite's addition mass destruction, or in the case of nuclear weapons total annihilation. Withdraw support for politics that, in stealth, keeps the rivers of money flowing for Endless Wars. There can be no social or green revolutions without a global end to war. I could go on and on... Thanks again.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Many of the groups I linked to do target the military and weapons industry :) but I didn't mention it so thanks!

@withheldformyprotection5518

Жыл бұрын

Alternatively, the environmental movement could make use of the military industrial complex by reframing their messaging to “climate change is a national security threat”. Putin’s war has made it abundantly clear to the West that moving away from a fossil fuel based economy is in everyone’s best interest, and over the long term will reduce the need for imperialism to secure resources for the capitalists (at least until water becomes scarce). Imagine if some portion of the recently approved $858 billion U.S. military budget was directed toward developing the fossil fuels alternative infrastructure and technologies…the progress could be substantial. As the recent DART mission showed, it may be easier to redirect a threat than to destroy it. Pivot the m.i.c. goals to align with ours.

❤I'm crying so hard right now ! This was beautiful 😍

I like intersections of climate and disability accommodation. My local non profit bikeshare POGOH is a good example…added e bikes for rent

@FrontlineHeroes

Жыл бұрын

Pgh?

@liamhodgson

Жыл бұрын

@@FrontlineHeroes yes the burghhh

you changed my mind too, thank you

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

🥺

She's right, you know!

a trick filmmakers use for continuity is adding "room tone", like if you're switching back and forth between takes and different mic setups, they play the continuous rumbling of the space to bridge between them

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

i didn't want the audio between takes to have continuity - i wanted it to appear as tho one person was further away from the mic.

@steubens7

Жыл бұрын

it does sound different, i can hear the ceiling hehe. if i couldn't see the video it would be hard to follow what was happening. people play with stereo imaging for movement too. it lets you hear the space, like the berm to your left on the walking bits. loud streams that are quiet irl, twigs snapping, the air being open above the person speaking gives that "outside" feeling, it's all just tricks to hear what's in the picture

🙏🏻🙏🏻oh my god thank you for the well thought words

We have community fridges for free food and drink. It's been a great way to keep perfectly good food from being discarded as surplus, and to make mutual aid efforts more visible.

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

that's such a good idea!

@ajankytoucan

Жыл бұрын

Community fridges sound so good, but are illegal in germany. They technically count as a kind of restaurants here, so have to follow the same guidelines (which is of course impossible). And of course the beaurocratic ghouls see no issue with that, to them it's the law so it's right. It's one of the simplest thing that could be done, but we would have to go through a grueling beraucratic process to even have a change be considered and ultimately dismissed. I just hate it so much.

thank you

I wanna campaign for late-night public transit to my neighboring town. It's either this or drunk drivers

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like an important issue, good for you!

@scusachannel1682

Жыл бұрын

@@Ember_Green I mostly just want to go to the club but hate driving, but my selfish goals and those of the climate and street safety occasionally combine

To quote from the Alien Crossfire expansion to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "Humans : correct in making the leap from wealth as currency to wealth as energy. But logic failure : wealth ultimately is extension of desire, fluctuating with emotions and state of mind. Desires : when all are supported in purely adaptable system, true wealth is achieved." The urges to continuous consumption and conspicuous consumption are a part of the problem. Supporting the poor should be part of the effort. The rich who actually realise that they don't need to flex their wealth to have influence can be part of the solution. So can refusing to consume certain types of product - arrange a local boycott. If you can walk, cycle or take public transport to work, do that, and encourage other people to join you, or, if your company has some sort of pseudo-public-transport situation going on, use it. As for politicians, make sure that you're voting for people who live where you do, and if they've put their actual addresses on the ballot paper, consider those people more trustworthy - they're willing to risk those who don't like what they do taking violent offense.

tysm❤

i never commented on the video upon the original viewing, cuz i didnt know what to say, but i saw hoot's little attention grabber to your post about this video not notifying ur subscribers. so here is a comment to help boost this 💛

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

And look, at the end of the day, if giving up things of comfort is holding you back from moving forward with climate activism, there are ways to keep those things in a much more climate active way. Instead of buying factory farmed meat and eating it every day, reduce your consumption of it to once or twice a week and source your Meats from local butchers that get it from local farms. Just that action alone removes a bunch of carbon from the supply chain. Same with vegetables and eggs, buy from local farm markets and suppliment with dried foods. Dried foods are much easier to ship places and things like beans are easy to rehydrate with something super efficient like a pressure cooker. Start feeding your kids a variety of foods that are vegetarian. Obviously this doesn't apply to people who are living paycheque to paycheque in food deserts. Survival is always the most important thing. But if you can reduce your meat and dairy consumption by buying locally raised and butchered meat and local produce, you're significantly reducing your own carbon footprint. However, all this to say that 100 companies do 70% of global emissions so honestly your best bet is lobbying your local government to move away from oil, coal, and gas, and towards green infrastructure. Run for local office! Join phone blitzes and email blitzes to your local politicians! Talk to your friends about doing those things if you're unable, talk to your kids about it in an age appropriate way.

I just got an ad telling me how much F1 Racers are doing for the environment. What is happening? How are people so readily able to hold on to such dissonance? Omgs. -__-

the biggest problem in regards to ecological damage is not emissions form transportation, but rather soil erosion, toxic run off from petrochemical inputs in agriculture, draining of aquafers, etc. like seriously there is only a few more f*cking decades of harvest left if necessary change is not made in regards to farming practices. the solution is permaculture and regenerative farming, and a side benefit of such practices is that we can utilize them to grow crops for ethanol fuels in larger yields and in more abundance, which would not only cut emissions from our own vehicles, but it would enable transforming the supply system of fuel to localized production and distribution, instead of having pipelines, tanker ships, fuel trucks, etc, thus reducing overall use of fuel dramatically on top of utilizing a far more ecologically friendly form of fuel. and to add another immense positive it would largely mitigate many health issues especially that of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer because we would have much healthier more nutritious and filling foods that would end up being *cheaper* than the dogsh1t that we have now

Everyone needs to read this book

3:57 I saw a video not too long ago talking about how a violent and militant movement/group must be paired with a pacifist one. The one that is overtly aggressive makes the pacifists fighting for the exact same thing look more reasonable.

Yay!

In my third world country of Uruguay 60% of our electricity is renewable. Our biggest export is meat, and our government will push for it bc it's our only monetary value in the global arena. As a lower class person i have very little access to vegan options, it's just not something that is sold often here, and due to dietary problems i have to eat meat. Class it's a very important aspect of the climate revolution, people in more powerful and benefited countries HAVE to stand up for the rest of us. It's not fun knowing this is going to affect us first... But you also must know we won't be the last ones affected

A+

This was really good! You're building allies MLM style, eh?

Engagement comment!

Oh also I liked this: “Anti-Resilience: A Roadmap for Transformational Justice within the Energy System” by Shalanda H. Baker edit: lol, 1 more: _Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times_ by Nick Montgomery & carla bergman

Nice

ALGORITHM! ALGORITHM! AALLGGOORRIITTHHMM!

Offer for the algorithm gods🙏

I don’t know what your name is, am not really bothered to know, but I watch all your videos - which I find really well thought out. I have some friends that I talk to about this stuff and when I reference your videos I just refer to you as pon. but in my head you’ve gone from pon_youtuber -> ping pong -> pong just a weird thing

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

well i do my best not to pong lol i'm mica thanks for watching all my videos :)

@dbleaker

Жыл бұрын

@@Ember_Green you are great at what you do. been a student of marx my whole adult life but only recently found out that I have autism - you have helped me out a lot with these videos. thanks for putting in all this effort and solidarity from sunny clacton-on-sea/jaywick, essex - been putting off watching your series on alienation and marx because I know it’ll be pretty emotionally intense BUT it’s on my calendar for next month. all the best, don

@dbleaker

Жыл бұрын

@@Ember_Green I want to do my own video on the labour theory of value and how generalised commodity exchange is stupid way to organise an economy, but i’ve got an enormous amount of organising work in my community so we’ll see

I send my love to boba❤

Why do these kinds of videos always make me more depressed, more delusional and less motivated to do anything? They really shouldn't and I agree with everything presented. But I can't see myself doing anything, I dont know how to do anything. The mere idea of doing anything make me anxious, the idea of not doing anything or to little makes me furious. What if I have no place in making the world a better place?

@ajankytoucan

Жыл бұрын

Like, I don't want anyone to get hurt. And I despise our rulers for having made that impossible, either willingly, through incomptence or through complacency. We can't improve the world without our kind litteraly dying as a consequence of our attempts. Its how the machine is designed, and we have to play by its rules, if we want to or not. We are all made murderers, and even if we just try to leave, someone will die because of that.

Soon we will run out of engineers who are willing and able to build oil and gas extraction. Unfortunately in the short term this will lead to various “accidents” in the short term.

I'm gonna roar. A roar of fear and hope. Lmao I could be a YA novelist

Harming people who harm people is harm reduction

@Alan_Duval

Жыл бұрын

Eat the rich :D

@nihilnihil161

Жыл бұрын

@@Alan_Duval Class War Munchies lmao

@Alan_Duval

Жыл бұрын

@@nihilnihil161 lol

@IriSmarchitOleroAnAl

Жыл бұрын

Are you gonna make an army aut of weak harmless people? 😂😂😂

@Alan_Duval

Жыл бұрын

​@@IriSmarchitOleroAnAl Define both 'weak' and 'harmless.' A weak person can nevertheless pull off significant feats of strength when adrenaline is present. Harmlessness is often contextual. Would you rather fight the Rock or 100 9-year-olds?

I remember when Kurzgesagt in a nut shell talked about it a few times in some of there videos, like nuclear energy, like waste barrels being bury underground, and how toxic other fuels are, coal and fossil. I do like how they stick in several gaming references into them.

I’m leaving a comment because I like this video

@seagreenm

Жыл бұрын

I'm replying because I like this video

@Ember_Green

Жыл бұрын

And I am replying to create the illusion of discussion!

When are people finally going to start sabotaging the businesses actually responcible instead of being an inconveniance to eachother. Ie, Oil refineries and coal mining stuff. If you want anything to change, then the risk to business has to be enough that it is nolonger seen as profitable

I wanna learn to make games that teach kids about animals and conservation :D

As a citizen from a Third World Country and whose lifestyle (as much of my fellow countrymen) is nowhere near as destructive as those in developed countries, I will believe people are actually fighting environmental degradation when BAU stop and consumption (of goods and resources) diminishes. People love talking about fossil fuel transition, EVs and renewable energy, that's very nice, but when the cost of this transition is companies from developed countries coming to mine and others undeveloped countries in order to mine minerals in ways that destroy the local environment and strip the earth dry, all the while governments in Europe and North America act holier than thou by not only supporting these companies and a whole lot of greenwashing, you'll have to excuse me if I don't actually support it. As long as consumption continues as is and increasing, renewables and EVs will merely be an additional form of environmental destruction business, one that merely destroys slightly less and in different ways. By the way, even in my country we still consume the equivalent of 1,3 planets in a year, imagine how much you all from First World Countries will actually have to reduce in consumption, Sisyphus would blush.

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So, maybe I'm missing the point of the video, but is Wren a good option? Like, I get that anything is better than nothing, but I've got scammed by KZread sponsors before. These days, I get skeptical of anything I see too many ads for.

@Ember_Green

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People keep saying the word "scam" at me but fail to provide any reason for it at all. Go look at the website & all the links for the projects yourself...?

@MichiruEll

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In general carbon compensation is better than no carbon compensation. But even better would be less emission. Carbon comp often removes way less carbon than they claim. But still, they help somewhat. I also recommend looking into the projects you support. Google whether that program is effective. For example, some tree planting programmes don't check that the tree will survive. And if it dies they just sell a new tree to someone else and plant it in the same space. But again giving money towards environmental causes is better than keeping it in a bank account. Other point: why tie contribution to our carbon footprint? It's to alleviate the guilt. But should we alleviate our own guilt? Maybe it's best to just donate money to environmental causes without telling ourselves that it makes up for our emissions.

@Ember_Green

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@@MichiruEll Wren isn't *really* about "carbon offsetting" - that is simply a widely understood language & the calculator is just a way to spark interest in clicking on the site. The results of the calculator bares no relevance to A) how much you pay - that's completely up to you or B) the projects they support, which are mostly not "planting trees" & there is nothing like "selling trees" on there. What is on there are projects which help Indigenous communities get the legal rights to their land, re-wilding of previously decimated ecosystems including peat restoration & active surveillance of rain forests. Hope that clears some things up.

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Childrens liberation esp in the US is also critical. So much indoctrination into conservatism happens because children are owned by their parents. Children are imaginitive, hopeful, looking twords their future and all that free creativity is a big athreat to capitalism

@diminarchy

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I think 3rd spaces are critical for this. Places willing to protect kids from having to go back to their owner/abusers