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It's increasingly looking like we are losing the fight against climate change. Is there even anything left we could do?

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[–] surplus_absolute_username@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why don’t you use your reason and independent thought and figure out the right steps? I do not have the magic formula to end capitalism, but we have more to gain from mistaken action than inaction. There’s risk in making suggestions, legal or not, that challenge the government in a revolutionary way in a public forum. You can figure it out.

Farming in our backyard is great, but insufficient when there are armed state paramilitary knocking down doors with semi-automatics and masks to enact their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

Regarding personal consumption: I haven’t bought petrol or animal products for 5 years, so I respect the impulse. But it’s akin to “I own no slaves, I hope others see reason and free their slaves one day”. The system of exploitation is ultimately not challenged and needs to be.

I don’t know what country you’re in, so it’s quite difficult for me to tell you how to be pragmatic politically. If it’s America, first thing you can do is stop voting for Democrats. As a general principle, a working people’s party, mass actions, self-defense groups, engaged with labor. You can go study history to learn about further development and see why this is a better model than reformism.

You demand I provide a complete societal model when I’m advocating you engage in political action? Same farcical demand the status quo have levied against anarchism for 100 years. Go read Malatesta, he’s answered you better than I can.