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Criticism is founded upon ignorance of how colonial systems have evolved into our current global trade

I think this is an interesting and important read for any (non African) environmental activists that want to start trashing palm oil.

#palm oil #evironmentalism #racism #because yes this is often the result of racism too #nigeria #africa

I love how not eating dead animals or animal products, not wanting to buy things wrapped in plastic, not wanting to buy new clothing from fast-fashion industries, wanting to be aware of what you buy as much as you possibly can and also not wanting to bring any other harm to this world is somehow controversial.

Wanting things to be better for animals does not mean wanting things to be worse for POC. Wanting a better environment and wanting to create awareness for environmental issues, does not mean wanting things to be worse for people who have little money. Wanting this issue to become a priority for more people, does not mean expecting perfection.

I appreciate everyone for simply doing what they can. If you genuinely can’t contribute as much as someone else, then that is just the way it is and I appreciate your efforts all the same.

(If you feel like you need to make excuses for not doing as much as you could, then you don’t understand what I’m getting at.)

#veganism #evironmentalism #sorry but I am so tired

you know Covfefe is hilarious but how about we call him out on publicly proclaiming that America will step down from the Paris Agreement...

#mine #Donald Trump #evironmentalism #paris agreement #environment #save the planet #I knew it was comming but still I hoped he would just forget

We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

#currently reading #book quotes #lit quotes #evironmentalism #humanism #edward abbey #desert solitaire

I woke up one day in a pissy mood and drew this because humanity is killing me. It's really, actually killing me and everyone and everything with it. So anyways yeah.

#not voltron #not danny phantom #evironmentalism #environment #save the earth #save the bees #save the planet #save the elephants #save the world #also #styrofoam isn't recyclable #nor are some coffee cups #plastic bags too #plastic bags actually get caught in machinery so they can't recycle it

I try to look at it as just as a tool. We’ve always had tools. We discovered how to work with fire, we made the first knife. The nuclear bomb comes and everybody’s like, “Oh, well, we could actually kill everybody.” We had to go through the morality of it. And so we have to react to that [with technology]. I definitely do get anxious about it, but because I’m anxious about it, I try to come up with solutions. It’s here : I’m not going to just put bananas in my ears and wait for it to go away. I’m probably most anxious about it when it comes to the planet and the environment. I feel guilty that I’m not just living in Iceland full-time, living on totally green energy and growing all my own vegetables. That’s what we all should be doing. But I think the way to overcome environmental problems is with technology. What else are we going to use—sticks ?

Björk on technology being the solution to our environmental problems, not just the cause, Pitchfork (2017)

#björk #quotes #environment #technology #evironmentalism

I don't think a lot of folks in general really understand how fucked things are environmentally right now, and I think a lot of that stems from the fact that they don't think they're seeing a lot of changes in their local areas. But let me assure y'all that no matter where you live, you are feeling the effects of climate change right now. Record temperatures are not just some kind of novelty that we get only for this summer, tropical storms are getting worse, extreme weather events are happening more frequently in areas that before had rarely if ever seen them.

One of my favorite things about my hometown and the region it sits in is that normally we get summer storms All The Time. I have a lot of fond memories of cramming into people's cars to wait for a storm to pass during sports practices and trying to decipher if what we heard was thunder or a plane. Another time as a child, I waited terrified for a game to get called as I watched a literal black sheet of clouds move across a previously clear blue sky. The aftermath was a hauntingly beautiful sunset of orange shadow through the only slightly thinned clouds. Plenty of my friends have heard me say that there's nothing quite like going to sleep while it sounds like the world is ending outside your window, and there really isn't. But we haven't had rain here in more than a week. It hasn't even been cloudy. This is not normal.

And all I keep hearing about is AI shitheads promoting garbage that sucks its nearest power grid out through a straw because they want to strangle every last penny out of every single thing they can get their pathetic hands on. And I hear about a bunch of genocidal colonizers dropping a greater mass of bombs than the entirety used in the WWII bombings of London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined on a place smaller than the city of Detroit; all so they can build beachfront properties and amusements parks on land soaked in the blood of innocents and poisoned by chemicals and smoke.

I can't help but think that christ, we were supposed to care. What the fuck happened to us as a society that we stopped giving a shit about anything other than culture war nonsense and pretending to have principles to look good on the goddamn internet of all fucking places? What happened?

#rambles #more like a rant honestly #whatever #evironmentalism #free palestine