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   jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 09:14:00 JST jacobian

   Just a reminder that the idea of a personal carbon footprint is propaganda invented by British Petroleum (BP) to distract from corporate responsibility for climate change by implying that changes to personal behavior are all we need to prevent global warming.

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     Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper (ryancoordinator@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 09:14:02 JST Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper

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     @jacob there's a word for that!

     Responsibilization !

     https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/responsibilization

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     Woozle Hypertwin (woozle@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 09:14:08 JST Woozle Hypertwin

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     • Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper

     @ryancoordinator @jacob Ooh, "responsibilization" -- that's a good one! I need to add it to my distractivism article.

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     Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper (ryancoordinator@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 09:14:09 JST Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper

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     • Woozle Hypertwin

     @woozle @jacob for more words you'll enjoy, I recommend a slow reading of a short dense book titled

     Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

     Available on the ever invaluable #internetarchive at https://archive.org/details/mark-fisher-capitalist-realism-is-there-no-alte-book-zz.org/mode/1upp :)