Monday, January 21, 2019

"Stop Thinking Like Individuals"

"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."

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