Originally published at: How We Survive podcast tackles lithium's relationship to climate change | Boing Boing
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It is incredible how experts always say that “people need to change” but never talk about the historical legacies of ideologies and belief systems of people in power creating the laws and policies that justify wealth-hoarding
They don’t even do that. More than half the time, it’s experts saying that “individuals need to change”. Which conveniently lets large corporations and nation-states with destructively inefficient and exploitative business practises off the hook for their culpability in the climate emergency.
There are no perfect solutions or alternatives at this point, but whether we’re talking about lithium mining or nuclear power there’s a lot of room for improvement in how and to whose benefit these enterprises do and don’t operate. A critical mass of demand that improvement won’t happen if those practises aren’t discussed in the media outlets, whether or not they (per Le Guin’s counterpoint to Zizek/Jameson) live in capitalism and can’t conceive of another system. No doubt that there are better lenses through which to view these issues than that of Marketplace, but that they’re discussing it at all is a step in the right direction.
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The Marketplace of ideas Suicidal Ideation.
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