A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment.
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Because here’s the thing: When you choose to eat less meat or take the bus instead of driving or have fewer children, you are making a statement that your actions matter, that it’s not too late to avert climate catastrophe, that you have power. To take a measure of personal responsibility for climate change doesn’t have to distract from your political activism—if anything, it amplifies it.
Maybe I was overly harsh earlier, I saw elsewhere in the thread that you are vegan. So am I , and I’m sure you’ve heard the “I didn’t kill any animals, the farms did” or “the meat at the store is already killed” or “I’ll go vegan when eating meat is illegal” and I’m not sure how you reconcile the two.
I’ve never heard those comments and I don’t know what point you are trying to make with them.
Either you’re not vegan or you haven’t had many conversations trying to convince others to go vegan lol
I’m vegan and have had many conversations trying to convince others to go vegan. The only thing I commonly hear is “where do you get your protein”?
I still don’t know what point you’re trying to make.
I feel like the parallels between the stupid shit carnists say and your comments are obvious, but maybe you’re operating on some Idealist level of logic I’m too utilitarian to follow.