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The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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The KISS solution would be to shoot all 1.4B cows on earth. That would slow climate change significantly and give us enough time to transition the world into using renewable resources. Also before I get downvoted for suggesting such an appalling idea as going on a cow murdering genocide, stop and reflect about the origin of that big piece of meat you ate for dinner tonight. Let's kill these cows once and for all.

What you have just stated is a very good example of eco fascism.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…

The current anti-brown sentiment and violence in the US is clearly extremism. You are trying to hide behind the tried and tested, "but it's the law" and you conveniently omit why the movement even exists (racism, brown people are icky) and how "justice" is being carried out (through inhumane methods that show no empathy and cause great harm to the victims).

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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The KISS solution would be to shoot all 1.4B cows on earth. That would slow climate change significantly and give us enough time to transition the world into using renewable resources. Also before I get downvoted for suggesting such an appalling idea as going on a cow murdering genocide, stop and reflect about the origin of that big piece of meat you ate for dinner tonight. Let's kill these cows once and for all.

Sounds good to me. The moral argument is null and void considering we already participate in immesurable evil through mechanized industrial murder of billions of animals for consumption. Killing them all, except a small breeding stock so we don't lose the genetic qualities of cattle, in order to save our environment seems like a very wise thing to do indeed. I'd vote for this in a heartbeat.

The only arguments against it are capitalist.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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post #2

> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…

China and Japan are both quite unfriendly to outsiders and ridiculous choices to compare with a country formed almost entirely of immigrants from the quite recent past.

Japan is actually getting quite friendly lately, as a full-time remote worker have been investigating moving there for a while.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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post #9

Not surprised to see the left slowly distancing itself from environmentalism (save climate hysteria), given the coming African population bomb: http://theconversation.com/theres-a-strong-chance-that-one-t... 4.5 billion Africans by 2100 will mean ecological devastation the likes of which we've never seen, and traditional environmentalism will increasingly prove difficult to reconcile with anti-racism.

If we haven't learned how to live sustainably by 2100, we'll have wrecked the planet anyway. Future environmentalism will likely be about helping developing countries skip the extremely polluting stage of development.

You mean by 2010

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Methane accounts for less than 20% of all GHG emissions (in CO2 equivalent units), and cows are only responsible for a part of that. Reducing the number of cattle is important, but killing all cattle would only buy us a few years before we have to completely decarbonize the global economy. In industrialized economies, agriculture's relative impact is even lower, since we emit so many GHGs from other sources.

It's still a significant contributor of methane. This change wont happen overnight of course but more alt meat companies such as beyond meat and impossible burger will be able to engineer superior food products that will eventually price real meat out of the market. The cow populations will suffer slowly as will their corporate slave masters.

Cows are happier being farmed than not being.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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post #21

The KISS solution would be to shoot all 1.4B cows on earth. That would slow climate change significantly and give us enough time to transition the world into using renewable resources. Also before I get downvoted for suggesting such an appalling idea as going on a cow murdering genocide, stop and reflect about the origin of that big piece of meat you ate for dinner tonight. Let's kill these cows once and for all.

What you have just stated is a very good example of eco fascism.

But may nevertheless be necessary. Polite neoliberal capitalism will not see us through this challenge.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China and Japan are both quite unfriendly to outsiders and ridiculous choices to compare with a country formed almost entirely of immigrants from the quite recent past.

Japan is actually getting quite friendly lately, as a full-time remote worker have been investigating moving there for a while.

The Japanese government is opening up, but it's gonna take some time for Japanese society to do the same. I can tell you from experience that integrating as a foreigner in Japan is...challenging.

Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)

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> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…

Except for a very small minority, aren't you all immigrants in the US? Or is there a rule for when immigrants can label themselves 'natives'?
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