Notices by RobCornelius (robcornelius@climatejustice.rocks)

@yacc143 @MartyFouts @goatsarah

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Next Question.

@goatsarah

Its down to certain peoples egos (specifically Muskrats) versus reality. Its not going to end well, that's for sure.

Have you ever noticed you are never asked to identify street objects in upscale neighbourhoods? OK posh neighbourhoods are less cluttered but....

@goatsarah

Why do you think the tech bros want us to identify traffic lights, bicycles etc. Its so they can better train their "AI" models to spot them so the self driving cars become a reality. We are all beta testers

#Gorillas have joined #TeamOrca

The #heatwave in Southern Europe is getting a lot of coverage in the news. Rightly so. Its the future we were warned about happening in front of our eyes.

The heatwave is just as bad in North Africa. It doesn't make the news. People are dying in North Africa too.

#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChaos #MediaBias #BadJournalism

@woodbark

When its been tried to get people back to working on the land through government action its not gone well. Mao and Pol Pot basically.

Working in very intensive agriculture could provide much needed employment for millions of climate refugees. Tech people talk of having robot tractors trundling up and down fields zapping weeds with lasers instead of spraying biocides. It would be just as effective to have a large number of people with hoes.

Even things like smaller scale agriculture replacing massive machinery with many people would be a step in the right direction in my book.

If its a case of work on the land or starve....

@woodbark

That was what I meant by my original reply. I don't see how we can go beyond small neighbourhood changes though.

For instance food security for the small town I live in would be a wonderful goal. We have allotments and a small community orchard already, lots of people grow fruit and veg in their gardens of course. We could appropriate scraps of land around the town to turn them over to growing food.

To be really secure we would have to appropriate nearby land for growing food for the town instead of for profit. That is never going to happen. Money and the law protect the land owners.

So even at the scale of a small town in Southern England things are hard.

Capitalism is a motherfucker.

@woodbark

I guess we follow the two books I mentioned and do what we can for our local communities. We *might* be able to lessen the impact of the #polycrisis of #capitalism in small pockets of resistance.

We look after our own basically.

I have been reading The Solutions Are Already Here https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8bbebef2-754c-41ce-a1b7-489303de816d
and Let This Radicalize You https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b51b61e2-d4de-410a-8430-50938bfedb60

They are both good and well meaning books full of inspirational stories of people organising to try and make things better for their communities. Some of those people are fighting state repression and violence.

The problem I have is that while local organising and resistance is of course vital its never going to beat the statist capitalist system. No matter how motivated your comrades are they can't realistically overthrow capitalism by creating community projects.

Fuck it, we are doomed.

#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #organising #resistance

this tells you all you need to know about #WesternCivilisation #ClimateEmergency