#ecologicaldestruction — Public Fediverse posts
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[Thread] Random excerpts from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender
The Enemy of #MotherEarth
"From Mother Earth to our bodies, in a #capitalist system everything that can be reduced to a commodity will be. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as #capitalism is the enemy of Mother Earth and all that we hold to be #sacred.
"In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on an unregulated or 'free' market, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social #exploitation and dispossession, #EcologicalDestruction, #hyperindividualism and #materialism, and its history is rooted in #WhiteSupremacy, #cishetereopatriarchy, #genocide, and #slavery.
"To be anti-capitalist is not enough, anti-capitalist propositions rooted in #industrialism and #extractivism are just as invested in #ecocidal (therefore anti-Indigenous) economies. Killing the Earth is killing Indigenous existence, #Colonizers must religiously convince themselves and others that the world is already dead to justify their ongoing violence against the Earth and existence. In the face of global ecological ruin, some attempt to further convince themselves that killing the Earth just a little bit less is an appropriate response."
Pages 136-137
#IndigenousAnarchy #Ecosystem #DefendTheSacred #CorporateColonialism
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International negotiators just missed a deadline to regulate deep-sea mining. Now what?
"A low-impact mining industry is unlikely to materialize in the absence of ISA rules governing environmental standards and oversight. However, if a company submits a commercial deep-sea mining application before the ISA completes those rules — officially called the Mining Code — the agency will be legally obligated to consider the request nonetheless. Some industry watchdogs fear this will trigger a literal race to the bottom, in which companies destroy fragile seafloor ecosystems in the pursuit of profits."
But: there is NO such thing as a "low-impact seafloor mining industry." A total ban on this necrocapitalist extractivism is called for. The profiteers and their "green liberal" sycophants argue that if we want solar energy, etc., we should just lie down and accept. The lynchpin is their unspoken assumption that capitalist growth with its attendant consumerism must continue. We need to tear their shit down.
#ecologicalcrises #ecologicaldestruction #capitalism #biodiversity #biodiversitycrisis #climatecrisis #ExtinctionRebellion #ecosocialism #SystemChangeNotClimateChange