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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot (www.theguardian.com)
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The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Posted here, because it's an opinion piece, so not news.

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago*

!climate@slrpnk.net is the largest and most active community on this topic. I'm not aware of any rules against posting opinion pieces in this, or any other community. Provided of course that its respectful, and relevant to the topic of the community.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    All the references to "capital" remind me of the other problem. Capitalism is a disease of society, and it did happen by accident. No cure seems to be available. It drives each of us, and the AI monsters we call corporations, to use up everything we can get regardless of what good or harm it does to all of us collectively. It's resulted in a lot of good things, a lot of bad things, and now it's going to destroy itself unless it's stopped.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    No cure seems to be available.

    Sure there is. Our problem is that the tiny ultra-wealthy cadre that benefit from capitalism is well-placed to pour trillions into defending it, and have also spent the last 75 years denigrating the only viable alternative - which has always collapsed into autocracy/authoritarianism within months to a year or three of its attempt to be established, and so has never been successfully done - such that the mere mention of its name acts as a thought-terminating cliché.

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