It’s sad that most people are commenting without even reading the article nor watching the mockumentary. We can be better than this :)
I watched it and it has some nice jokes and sketches in it. There is no blame, just plain explaining some psychological mechanism and also even mocking the corporate greenwashing.
It does not address capitalism, yes. It pushes Patagonia, yes. Still, it’s a good little video, I would send it to people around me if it was in my language.
why folks shouldn't bother trying to emit less carbon?
I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just talking about priorities :)
I’m also playing the “being less dependent on capitalism” game but I recognize that it’s an uphill battle and most of the people don’t have time nor energy like me.
On an individual level I’d say the most important thing is taking back our time and cognitive energy to unlock other possibilities.
If you have time and energy yes, lower your footprint, help people around you do the same, get healthier, get powerful, be more resilient and so on. If you are a normal person with limited time and energy focus on wellbeing and even just putting one inch of support on the stuff I said earlier because the number of people at rallies and strikes really matters.
Your part is not thinking how to reduce your carbon footprint but organizing with other people and partecipating in collective actions or movements or whatever.
Your small part may be even just donating 10€ to the people needing legal help cause protesting. Or just showing up to a rally. Joining a union…
I think that just liberals think we should all try to reduce our carbon footprint so there is really no need to feel guilty about that on this server ;)
You could do an AMA about this stuff (probably the best suited community is !urbanism@slrpnk.net ), it’s really interesting to know how it was setup and all the costs and idk how you take common decision and who owns the building and so on
If you feel like digging more, the books cited in the article are good. I’ve read digital minimalism and I plan to read the new one “slow productivity”
I think you are getting downvoted by a mix of people who think about it being a bit ableist policy (even tho you did include that for people who need it they should be able to take it) but also just because it's full of US people. They are just 4% of the world population yet they act like we should talk about solutions taking them into account everytime. It's one of the reasons that made me give ownership of slrpnk to another person, I feel like it's a bit pointless to talk about organizing while the userbase is so spread and often so US focussed, they are basically behind in every policy.
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