It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in Brazil.
  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    547·
    2 years ago

    The human race will get what it deserves. You think everyone will accept climate change after it kills a billion+ people?

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
      684·
      2 years ago

      Except it isn’t “humanity”, it is a tiny percentage of (generations of) rich fucks destroying the planet for profit, and maintaining a (completely artificial) system that feeds off of oppression, exploitation, greed and selfishness.

      When you blame “humanity” you also blame those living in the Amazon trying their best to save it, as well as every other poor bastard born in to this world with no power or means of getting it.

      These generalisations only serve to keep the rage from its rightful target.

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        231·
        2 years ago

        Except this arson wasn’t done by rich people. It was locals who want to use the land for farming cattle.

        Absolving individuals for their behaviours is a great way to go nowhere. We all make choices

          • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.worldEnglish
            85·
            2 years ago

            Theres only one person to blame and that’s the person who lit it on fire. It’s very convenient for no one except the ultra rich to have any agency in the world but it’s not how reality works

      • Gargantu8@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        2 years ago

        It’s a tiny number of rich fucks emboldened by billions of people not doing anything to stop it though. Have you doorknocked for campaigns?

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          33·
          2 years ago

          Billions of people with literally no choice but to be exploited or die…
          Your bootlicking isn’t making the point you think it does, and it definitely doesn’t give you a high ground to be judging others’ actions from (never mind that the actions you think need taking are pushing puppet A over puppet B on people’s doorstep, what a joke)…

          • Gargantu8@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            I’ll take that as a “no, I don’t actually do anything but complain online”. Have fun while I go help hundreds of people vote every election.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        2 years ago

        I’m sure the planet cares about the technical difference. They are humans therefore part of humanity. You can save your speech.

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          4·
          2 years ago

          “it’s so much easier for me to cast a wide net, that way I get to distance myself enough from the problem so that I don’t need to bother acting, and you pointing it out makes me uncomfortable, stop it”

    • coyootje@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      2 years ago

      Nope, it feels like most people are too far gone for that and they’ll never accept it. All thanks to these dumb politicians that took bribes to cover it up for years and years. Thanks for making our futures so much worse…

  • Scraphead@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    331·
    2 years ago

    Then it went up in flames, allegedly torched by land-grabbers trying to reclaim the territory for cattle pasture.

    A little hippie in me ask people to seek out and pay for more sustainable produced meat, buy cultured meat in the future, or just eat less meat.