She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax
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Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.
  •  clairexo   ( @clairexo@slrpnk.net ) English
    4•1 month ago

    Lazare isn’t fully aligned with [Andreas Malm, author of How To Blow Up a Pipeline], who has advocated an “ecological Leninism” of top-down state intervention in the economy.

    Anybody have a good sense of what “ecological Leninism” is? This several-word description of “top-down state intervention in the economy” isn’t particularly descriptive, and doesn’t really speak to what is Leninist about Malm’s views in contrast to Lazare’s

    •  silence7   ( @silence7@slrpnk.net ) OP
      13•1 month ago

      We shouldn’t need to kill people if we act now.

      Electrification of home heating and transport means that people are going to lead very similar lives to what they lead today on a regular basis. People living in cities and towns are going to be more likely to use mass transit, and we’ll repurpose some structures so that people can live closer to where they work and shop.

      The very wealthiest are going to need to give up their mega-yachts, and air transport will be a lot less common.

      Some industrial processes will need to change how they’re done.

      We’re going to use a lot less concrete, and somewhat less steel.

      •  sinkingship   ( @sinkingship@mander.xyz ) 
        2•1 month ago

        Such a interesting time frame to be alive! Humanity is in a race against itself. Losing could not only mean the end of humanity, but of vast forms of life on Earth. And it’s an uphill race of common democratic people racing against the rich, who own the means we need to win.

        Almost like a movie, however, I feel in a movie there wouldn’t be as many people shrugging shoulders and looking away.