#fossilfuelledfascism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fossilfuelledfascism, aggregated by home.social.
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Headlines you won't see, but ought to: "Today's celebration of health and fun brought to you by the purveyors of death and planetary ecological breakdown."
#Sportwashing is the practice of sanitising the reputation of a government or corporation through sponsoring sporting events, associating their organisation with the significant public goodwill attached to sports.
A new report by a climate research group called the New Weather Institute calculates that #DirtyEnergy megacorporations have collectively spent at least US$5.6b in such deals.
From the report: “Fossil fuel companies are seeking to associate their product, whose #AirPollution alone is estimated to kill over 5 million people a year, with sport’s immense #SocialCapital and positive health impacts.
“They do this for many of the same reasons that #tobacco companies sponsored sport before it was largely banned – to portray themselves in a positive light and normalise their activities in the eyes of billions of sports fans.
“These types of sponsorship deals buy so-called ‘social licence’ to operate, in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health.”
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #FossilFuelledFascism #SocialLicence #advertising
See also #greenwashing
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CW: On the growth of authoritarianism 🧵
The Republican agenda under #Trumpism has three primary goals:
(a) to dismantle the very notion of the rule of law and any extant institutions capable of or willing to resist authoritarianism —"We can do whatever we want";
(b) to secure popular support through the promise and demonstration of #StateViolence against scapegoated minorities and through the preferential targeting of government support—"We will hurt (the people we've convinced you are) your enemies";
(c) to further centralise and cement the profits and power of extant ecocidal capitalistic #plutocracy—"Billionaires deserve to rule the final days of a planet being consumed by their own greed".This is #FossilFuelledFascism. Far bigger than a single individual, it is a movement of resentment, fear and #MightMakesRight that won't simply disappear with electoral defeat or criminal convictions of its current unifying figurehead.
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