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   Betsy. (a muffin). (betsythemuffin@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:27:23 JST Betsy. (a muffin).

   One thing I struggle with, with regard to leftist/pop-leftist approaches to environmentalism, is:

   Our modern medical supply chain is dependent on fossil fuels to a boggling extent. Single-use sterile items; packaging for same; pharmaceutical precursors; etc. Obviously, defossilization of these supply chains is mandated --

   but it's a hard problem. There are no quick or absolute fixes. So when I hear "just shut it down," I hear "my disabled brother is an acceptable casualty."

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 19:30:12 JST simsa03

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     Ah, someone realises that the climate movement is not just a privileged but an ableist movement. Which only says that political movements come with a price and that, as usual, it is the weakest who have to pay.
     
     #infrastructure
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     Betsy. (a muffin). (betsythemuffin@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 01:23:20 JST Betsy. (a muffin).

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 I think it depends on how you define the "climate movement." I for example DO consider myself an environmental advocate. When I point out that simplistic models of decarbonization and defossilization are inadequate, or that naive solutions will hurt the already-downtrodden, it is a call to do the harder work of a REAL solution, not a capitulation to the idea that someone has to be screwed over.