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I'm probably what you'd call an environmentalist, but the movement is wrought with people who are more concerned with getting high off of self-flagellating mora
by wutbrodo 8y ago
I'm probably what you'd call an environmentalist, but the movement is wrought with people who are more concerned with getting high off of self-flagellating moral outrage than fixing problems. Legislative solutions to large polluters and trash generators don't feel like penance in the same way that individual sacrifices do, so a huge chunk of people who are nominally concerned with environmental issues misallocate their complaints, wrt the actual severity of polluters.
I'm not sure this is solvable, humans being what they are, and I don't think it's unique to environmental issues.
- sitkack 8y agoWe probably need (but don’t want) algorithmic control of our actions.
- nielsole 8y agoWhat else is a constitution?
- sigi45 8y agoI'm able to complain about plastic and cigarette butts in parallel.
- wutbrodo 8y agoCongratulations, you should be very proud of yourself. That's quite an accomplishment. It's also a bizarrely defensive interjection, given that it has nothing to do with my comment, which was about the set of ostensible environmentalists that focus on self-flagellatory concerns at the expense of actually significant ones, a group that you're saying you're not part of.
- fenwick67 8y agoPerhaps tone down your externally-flagellatoriousness if you're in agreement with somebody
- wutbrodo 8y agoWhat do you mean by "externally flagellating"?
- crimsonalucard 8y agoIt's possible, and this is just a suggestion in the nicest way possible, that he may be referring to his own face. That or he just made a word up. How intelligent!
- sigi45 8y agoI did respond to the following: "issues misallocate their complaints, wrt the actual severity of polluters" No need to be sarcastic.