Why should you have a choice in ending all life on earth? If everything is dead then there is no more issues to be solved, you would have nothing to protest if you are dead.
We already had the “vegans can’t tell indigenous peoples to not eat meat” struggle session. But I’ll give my take.
Indigenous peoples have certain privileges to do things because they were the victims of several centuries worth of genocide. These privileges include…
Eating meat
Hunting
Doing slash and burn agriculture
Land exploitation like oil drilling
Running a casino
It’s already decided that the descendants of white settler colonialists shouldn’t eat meat, that they shouldn’t be land owners, that institutions like gambling are bad. But to deny indigenous communities to decide for themselves their own destiny on things is stripping away the self agency indigenous people need returned to them.
Yes indigenous have special spiritual connections to the land, no western science is not the be all end all of knowledge, no white people/european do not possess the same spiritual connection to land or have cultures worth preserving.
It may sound hypocritical to say a white should legally not be allowed to eat meat but an indigenous person can no problem, but if you don’t get it, then you probably never will. This issue cannot be fully expressed in words.
Actually it’s not okay to witness the marvel of nature because actively seeing is interacting with it. We need most of the planet closed off to human interaction and that includes seeing. Of course I get a pass because I’m a conservationist but I’ll take many pictures, you can experience it in VR.
Yes the capitalist system is unproductive, no that does not mean the United States is not a leading nuclear power. So shit gets privatized, we got oil lobbyists out the ass pushing for less nuclear power, we aren’t building nuclear power plants as fast as China. Do you expect the United States to no longer have nuclear power in ten years? What about 100? I don’t expect the United States to be the world leader forever but unless there’s a great calamity that wipes out the United States nuclear power is still gonna be a thing here. How long do you think we are going to have India or China beat in production for examples? How long until you think a populous country like Nigeria has a nuclear power plant?
Let’s just remove all currently existing nuclear power plants and start over. By the end of 2030 the US would probably shit out a couple nuclear power plants because it can throw money at the problem. Or do you think some calamity is going to wipe the US off the map? To you every loss the United States makes is irrefutable evidence that it’s doomed to fail and every good decision it makes to is a fluke and its fall will come eventually. You’re a doomer, or maybe not since you think that a widespread collapse of the nuclear power industry in the United States would be a good thing.
Your problem is with the ownership of nuclear power plants, while valid, nuclear energy is still the only way we don’t kill ourselves through climate change. Say there’s one Chernobyl level disaster every decade. It’ll still be worth it.
Sure on the environment impact hierarchy it’s less than golf, or equestrian sports, or motor sports. But it’s still above an acceptable level of land use which is why I’m in favor of banning it.
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I support the rights of our blue checkmark overlords to signify their social status with a blue checkmark.