I've been noticing this more and more, there's an insistence that pointed economic or environmental criticisms of some consumption habit, usually almost exclusively partaken by the upper middle class and wealthier people, must actually secretly be a purely cultural critique. I'm sure these guys work for Exxon or some shit, lmao.

  • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    degrowth: (actual materialist science, not ideologically constrained to say 2+2=5)

    anti-degrowth neoliberals:

    if you can decarbonize them, what's the problem?

    The absolute state of scientifically illiterate idealist/utopian socialist PMC lmao

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Degrowth movement has issues, especially in making the "the west needs to eat less beef and drive less" argument popular, but man the anti-degrowthers are just reddit bazinga brains. "Don't worry bro, we can have as much of everything we want with zero environmental consequences with the power of ⭐️technology⭐️"