@juergen_hubert ‘then that means we would have to fight ourselves’ (rather than them. This exactly- the level of success of their propaganda is astonishing… the number of everyday people who say “the rich work hard for what they have” is astonishing.

@juergen_hubert preach!

@juergen_hubert Yep. The whole concept of a "carbon footprint" came from a 2004 marketing campaign for BP, among the world's largest oil companies. The idea was to deflect responsibility for climate change by individualizing the problem, thereby delaying action against the major polluters. Since 1988, 100 companies have been the source of 70% of the world’s greenhouse emissions, and only 25 corporate or state-owned entities have been responsible for more than half of global industrial emissions.

@juergen_hubert No, it's our fault too. We are way more than the oligarchs who ruin the planet and yet we don't organize and we don't try to make policies to stop them. Each and everyone of us has the personal responsibility to educate ourselves and our community and organize the fight from the bottom.

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@juergen_hubert What you write meets the latest Oxfam report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam

But I have a different criticism of doom & gloom! The narrative of an apocalypse, of "humanity's suicide/extinction" dismisses all activism as ‘superfluous’ and ‘useless’. This aggressively resigned attitude merely avoids personal commitment and too often glosses over one's own inaction.

Only with hope we act. And yes, every action helps: That against the culprits *and* personal acting, living our visions.

@juergen_hubert people killed by oligarchs using planned climate triggered multi-crisis?
➡️ #ClimatePurge

@juergen_hubert But we DO bear responsibility. Are we without agency? Who is it who allows the oligarchs to continue with their exploitation? Who allows them to maintain their wealth, their power & their privileges? If we don't rise up in revolt against them, we acquiesce in the system that creates the #climatechange, the environmental destruction, the loss of #biodiversity, & the social injustice.

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Totally.

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It bothers me a bit that people still focus blame on specific groups. The sociological issue of climate change is quite a bit more nuanced; if you're interested in spending a couple days reading about it I have a summary of a forthcoming book here, and you can volunteer to be a beta reader.

https://chappyessays.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/a-summary-of-my-climate-booklet/

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I know people who - when we talk about the climate issue and how one has any influence - tell me bluntly they'll only act when they are forced to. As long as their behaviour (obviously harmful to climate & nature) is allowed, they'll go on.

That's counter-"personal responsibility" and I accept that - under the condition they at least vote for needed change.

The issue is, they vote for parties that promise them to not change anything.

How do you call that? Delegated suicide?

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#StopUsingFossilFuel if you can. Use less if you can. I want my grandchildren to live in an environment that is not inhospitable and function in an economy that is not distorted by this commodity.

@juergen_hubert you are absolutely right in that moving to a carbon free lifestyle (which I more or less have) does very little to shift the dial. It is still worth doing of course, but we should be putting a lot more pressure on the five or six largest polluters on the planet.

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"those who already own most of the world"

Small correction:

"those who have already stolen most of the world"