• hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.

    “It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”

    Ms Thunberg added: “If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.”

    The Climate Book … she decided to venture into political waters in her speech - having previously avoided doing so.

    The book is pretty capitalist tho 😂 https://theclimatebook.org/the-book/

    Edit: by capitalist I meant it being proprietary and commercial; not open access, no free license. I did not mean things like surplus per se, or that its ideas promote capitalism.

    BTW when you get serious about ecology and climate change, capitalism being a bad system which drives all that is the logical conclusion.

    https://monthlyreview.org/2018/05/01/the-physics-of-capitalism/