• Chigüir@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Love his enthusiasm, but is really can’t be. 😰 Still, if you are interested in knowing some real efforts to climate change ala Social Ecology, you can check out:

    • Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
    • Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
    • There are others but I can remember them by name, I would add here some ONGs but I think the best efforts have been those who straight-up work against climate change and social justice, since both are intertwined.

    For those interested on why this will totally not happen: there’s this great book called Capital as Power: The Study of Order and Creorder that’s covers why the creed of capitalization discounts people and environment from their books.

    Spoiler: Its because of how power over creation works and its motivated to accumulate power.

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      1 year ago

      Last year the US passed the Inflation Reduction Act; it’s expected to do this:

      So you can at least sometimes get big parts of what we need by working within the system.

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        It helps, that’s for sure. Is just that, as an effort, is insufficient. I just want the readers to not lose focus on the origin of the problem, which is the system of power.

        You can’t ask the butcher to stop killing, his business is butchering. I understand what you are saying and, of course, keep up the good work fellow solarpunk. What I’m trying to say is that: making political demands to the state of capital has serious limits, and we need to keep on doing that WHILE pre-configurating socio-political organizations. That way we can make resonant means and ends.

        Please, do keep in mind that this point of view is created in a “let’s hurry” context. Since houses all around where I was born are affected by landslides and overflowing rivers. And waiting for those politics to work will mean death, or at least sickness or famine for us.

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          You can’t change the system of power unless you hold power. So yes, there’s going to be a fair bit of working within the system as we get there.