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Oh no, they’re not just going to let it happen. They’ll actively stop us from solving it.
“Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don’t care where that money comes from.”
I bought this stock from a company called planter or something, it’s going crazy lately
This is so clever and I think most people are missing the joke.
I feel seen thanks homie
I don’t care where that money comes from.
Unless it’s renewable energy tech, then fuck it, those shitheads can rot in hell!
And they’ll put more of us on the planet too, because it’s so wonderful here.
Well im not having solar panels near my town. They’ll absorb all the sunlight and it’ll be dark!
But the windmills will kill all the birds (that there are none left of)!
Not real ones, anyway
…and oligarchy, and fascism, and income inequality, and decreasing life expectancy, and increasing infant mortality, and more wars, and huge amounts of debt, and job loss, and…
Besides that it’s smooth sailing.
… and microplastics, and resource scarcity, and MRSA, and infrastructure collapse, and social media addiction, and …
“We didn’t start the fire…” But you guys threw a bunch of petroleum and coal and tar sands on it
Short version: unchecked capitalism.
The decreasing life expectancy is largely related to obesity though. There are a lot of obese people who find reasons to blame other than their own self determination. If corporations have made it easy to eat yourself to death, people shouldn’t just let them get away with it by eating themselves to an early death.
I’m glad you brought up personal responsibility, however if you’re buying something from the grocery store, unless it’s raw ingredients, it has shit in it. Even then, in the US the only way to completely avoid nasty shit in food is to produce it yourself or purchase from a local farmers market. Unfortunately many people don’t have the resources to do that. But to your credit, we do seem to be developing some sort of allergy to personal responsibility, especially in regards to personal health and fitness.
If people willingly choose to shorten their life, I don’t consider it a problem.
Now, lying and manipulating people into choosing it, similar to what the cigarette industry did, is obviously a problem.
But at this point, everyone knows cigarettes and processed foods are unhealthy. People just don’t care.
People dont have the energy to care. They’re spending all of it trying to keep their families fed, clothed, and under a roof.
I’m so fucking tired of people pushing personal responsibility for systematic problems. People are kept intentionally under educated and do not have the resources to learn. No not everyone “knows” ultra processed foods are bad. Most people can’t even properly defined ultra processed foods and default to calling them processed foods which covers basically everything you find in a store besides produce.
This comic is TERRORISM according to Trump’s Republican Party!
This comment is anticapitalist and therefore terrorist…
“WE ARE ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS” -CPAC 2022
Looking at this more benevolently, the teacher might be wishing that this kid’s generation will end up being more conscious and willing to act than his own.
Yah I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the message in the context it’s presented. It’s a fucking teacher. They are already doing not just the most they can, but also doing something far more effective than butting heads with a corporate-driven world at a time when environmentalism was seen as fringe and ludicrous by most people on Earth.
It would be different if it was some wealthy corporate CEO saying “I’m leaving this for the next generation to solve.”
I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.
