Since December, Nike has lost about 30% of employees who worked primarily on sustainability initiatives, due to layoffs, voluntary departures or transfers to other duties. Already, the company was missing its targets for reducing emissions.
Don’t worry, they’ll survive, so will the planet. Its less certain for the rest of humanity and many other plant and animal species though. /j (kind of).
Anyway, we’re doing your server and thus username no justice, commenting in such gloomy terms. Solarpunk is such a breath of fresh air into these issues. And where endemic power structures fail you already see its themes of strengthened community bonds quickly reestablish themselves and shine through.
Solarpunk also hits the nail on the head with iur societies key issue. Its the structural design of our societies elevating private ownership claims as superior to societal ownership claims, its imbalanced.
But Covid, financial crises, wars and now Climate change quickly prove the, so called, independently strong are actually only as strong as the societal strength holding them tall.
Sorry. Didn’t meant to make it sound like we can’t stop climate change. I more meant to stop climate change we need to stop big corporations. My optimism for the future is rooted in a resolve that our future can’t look like our present. There’s no quick fixes, no silver bullets, no easy solves. Climate change is a result if colonialism and if we want to put a stop to it or even reverse it we have to dismantle the idea that its fine for a fortune 500 company to treat everyone they interact with horribly and cover up how detrimental they are
Don’t worry, they’ll survive, so will the planet. Its less certain for the rest of humanity and many other plant and animal species though. /j (kind of).
Anyway, we’re doing your server and thus username no justice, commenting in such gloomy terms. Solarpunk is such a breath of fresh air into these issues. And where endemic power structures fail you already see its themes of strengthened community bonds quickly reestablish themselves and shine through.
Solarpunk also hits the nail on the head with iur societies key issue. Its the structural design of our societies elevating private ownership claims as superior to societal ownership claims, its imbalanced.
But Covid, financial crises, wars and now Climate change quickly prove the, so called, independently strong are actually only as strong as the societal strength holding them tall.
Sorry, went off on a tangent.
Sorry. Didn’t meant to make it sound like we can’t stop climate change. I more meant to stop climate change we need to stop big corporations. My optimism for the future is rooted in a resolve that our future can’t look like our present. There’s no quick fixes, no silver bullets, no easy solves. Climate change is a result if colonialism and if we want to put a stop to it or even reverse it we have to dismantle the idea that its fine for a fortune 500 company to treat everyone they interact with horribly and cover up how detrimental they are