John Clarke
I wish I could be more effective in convincing left and progressive thinking
people of how utterly wrong headed, reactionary and dangerous this message is.
It attributes the climate crisis to some inherent evil in human nature but this
is so wrong. Do the Inuit people who have shared this area of the world with
bears like this for countless generations, carry the blame for what is depicted
here? Are small farmers in Africa responsible? The problems with this message
are:
1. The climate crisis flows from the destructive irrationality of a social and
economic system based on the pursuit of short term profits that is incapable of
developing a sustainable relationship with nature.
2. This diverts attention from challenging the system that is frying the planet
and channels anger into a useless exercise in self loathing that achieves
nothing.
3. This leads to the conclusion that the solution is to eliminate as much of
this human 'virus' as possible. It, in turn, gives comfort to deeply racist
ideas of population control focused on poor and oppressed countries. There are
those who are only too happy to help deliver that message.
This is misanthropic nonsense and it utterly undermines the struggle for
climate justice.
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