Post #1926835
2026-04-30 15:39 UTC
@Jeroen89 If you want a jungle, you need to let it be a jungle. There's no "carefully extracting some resources" or any such thing, it will destroy the jungle. (I use jungle in a generic way to mean "nature, undisturbed" if I may.) And that's why with capitalism, you cannot have jungles. All jungles will be "extracted for profit" because growing the jungle is an externalized (to the past) cost, not having the jungle is an externalized (to the future) cost, but profit is being made NOW. Want change? Gotta go chop down some rich people instead of trees, no way around it. 🤷 (Figuratively, of course. But chop you must.)
Replies (4)
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@atlovato@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 16:52
@phf @Jeroen89 Chop their Bank account for not paying their Fair share of Taxes is a start in the right direction.
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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social 2026-05-01 11:18
@phf @Jeroen89 Actually, chopping down billionaires literally could be ethically justified... As long as you are environmentally aware, and make sure you dispose of the bodies in an environmentally friendly way. The effect of one billionaire on the world is more than a great number of the world's countries.
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@Kurt@chaos.social 2026-05-02 07:43
@phf @Jeroen89 No and No. When i grew up our woods were spruce monocultures and the soil was sterile due to deer and darkness and a thick layer of needles. Storms and good huntig and farming now made it look like your 1800 picture.
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@PepperTheVixen@meow.social 2026-05-03 15:02
@phf @Jeroen89 what if it wasn't figurative?