»Wiping #ecosystems off the map is an obvious demonstration of power. #Extinction leaves a permanent mark, which is every dictator’s dream. It’s also a highly effective means of hurting those who resist him: the Indigenous people and other people of colour so often on the receiving end of environmental destruction; the regulators; the scientists and the rest of the intelligentsia; above all, people who care.
#Caring could be seen as the far right’s meta-target. The “suicidal #empathy” theme now crops up repeatedly in videos, newspaper columns and speeches: a professed belief that those who care about other people or species should be destroyed by those who don’t. This belief, by definition, is psychopathic.«
George #Monbiot via The #Guardian
#climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis #deforestation #landgrabbing #planetaryboundaries #ecocide #careeconomy
