This is pathological consumption: a world-consuming epidemic of collective madness, rendered so normal by advertising and the media that we scarcely notice what has happened to us.
The Gift of Death – George Monbiot https://t.co/JAVftS0qzH
This is the point in history where we know beyond doubt that our current system & the lifestyles it promotes will collapse our society & kill billions.
This is also the point in history where most people are too busy, stressed & distracted to let this knowledge ruin their day.
“The passing of the first Queen without an empire teaches us — about duty, about responsibility, to forge a future, to go on with the project of civilization, the perseverance it takes, the unflinching service and dedication it requires, the…” — @umairh https://t.co/WnhuPKOokk
"The Queen represented one of our last links to the Old World. And her passing brings about with it, a thought that can no longer really be denied. This is the end of an era. Not just that, actually. And now we are in a strange new place."
@MarcheurdeQc Il y a un concepteur publicitaire (il a travaillé sur d'anciennes pubs de Toyota Tundra justement) qui a écrit un article TRÈS INTÉRESSANT précisément à propos de cette publicité. Il lève de sérieux drapeaux rouges.
À lire absolument:
https://t.co/mdaz27BHZJ
The climate crisis is the number one emergency.
Renewables not only fight the climate crisis, they support energy security.
Renewables are the peace plan of the 21st century.
On ne parle pas du tout assez de la canicule en Inde et au Pakistan. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sont concernées.
Voici pourquoi tous les médias devraient en parler :
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« Pour qu’une pensée change le monde, il faut d’abord qu’elle change la vie de celui qui la porte. Il faut qu’elle se change en exemple. »
Albert Camus
À compter du dimanche 17 avril, vous pourrez observer à l'oeil nu l'alignement de Vénus, Mars, Saturne et Jupiter.
Le 23 avril, la lune devrait se joindre à ce spectacle.
Puis le 24 juin, toutes les planètes du système solaire vont s'aligner dans le ciel.
I'm gonna say a Black Pride Thing and, customarily, that will make some non-Black folks get in their feelings, so: Trigger Warning.
But... look at us. We can go from the depths of oppression to the heights of power in *a single* generation. We some folks, y'all.
In summary, when someone goes to your account timeline to decide whether or not to follow you, you have 3 scrolls to convince them to tap follow. Are you making a compelling argument in those 3 scrolls?
No one will be able to say "we didn't know" this time. The villages are being burned now, not buried. The concentration camps are being built, not demolished. The war you say you don't want is already here.
Socialists who align with growthism should remember what GDP measures: not use-value, nor livelihoods, nor provisioning, but exchange-value. It is a metric devised by capitalists to serve the interests of capitalism. John Smith nails it in "Imperialism in the 21st Century":