Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:50PM
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If our industrial and economic requirements and private property laws prevent us from maintaining a planet we can live on, what fucking good are they? Oh yeah I'm so happy I get to own my own little 0.25 acre kingdom upon which I'm legally allowed to do anything, the libertarian fantasy, then whoops the biosphere collapsed guess I'm dead now, oh well at least we created a lot of value for shareholders!
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Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
by maximinus_thrax on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:54PM
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> If our industrial and economic requirements and private property laws prevent us from maintaining a planet we can live on, what fucking good are they?
I share the same view with you. But we are the minority, just FYI. I've expressed these sentiments in public and every single time I've been labeled a tree hugging commie.
This event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea... radicalized me.
Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:26PM
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I genuinely live for all the people who get pissy at me for challenging the base assumptions of things like property rights and have no rebuttal apart from screaming "communist" at me.
If property rights cause us to kill the planet we're on because we're too stubborn to revisit that set of assumptions and maybe tweak them so we can save all of our lives, then IMO we rightly deserve the incredibly stupid demise we will suffer.