• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Humanity is in mortal danger because of conservatism. If you aren’t fighting conservatism, you aren’t fighting climate change.

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      2 months ago

      To be fair, liberalism, while far better isn’t remotely close to being an adequate solution, but we all need to kick the can down the road by picking whatever least bad option is available to us.

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        2 months ago

        Well, that’s the funny bit: the government in the UK aren’t the Conservatives, they’re New Labour who are Neoliberals, hard Neoliberals even by the standards of the rest of Europe.

        Nowadays the difference between Conservatives and Liberals is really just the subset of Morality that’s used in Identity Politics. They’re certainly not different on Economics, not on Quality Of Life for the many, not on a good Future for our Children (which provides a Selfishness-drive reason be an Environmentalist) and certainly not on Environmentalism as a Moral posture.

        We get some loud confrontational bullshit from both around various “-isms” all the while they’re both doing what’s best for the most wealthy of society and screw the rest (both present and future) and definitely screw anything that has no money and not capability for action such as Nature.

        You see that exact same shit in the US, by they way, as well (in not quite as extreme) in most of Europe.

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      2 months ago

      Neolibs sell us out to big oil just as much as neocons do. The root problem is capitalism. You cannot fight against climate change without fighting against capitalism

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        2 months ago

        Neoliberals are conservatives. Sadly, we do not have a progressive party in the U.S., so we must choose one of the conservative parties.