"If affordable mass transit isn't available, people will commute with cars. If local organic food is too expensive, they won't opt out of fossil fuel-intensive super-market chains. If cheap mass produced goods flow endlessly, they will buy and buy and buy. This is the con-job of neoliberalism: to persuade us to address climate change through our pocket-books, rather than through power and politics."
In a 2017 Guardian article, Martin Lukacs argues that "it's only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis."
Monday, January 21, 2019
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