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I am a rabid tree hugger. I often just go live in the woods, because I like it.
That should make what I say here more shocking: I'm glad the Green Revolution has been suitably ridiculed, however, I'm sad it was. There are good ways to have that revolution, but AOC didn't propose them.
For example, that corporations are legally required to maximize stockholder returns horribly perverts the original purposes for which corporations were allowed to exist. The first corporate charters were extremely focused on public (crown) benefits, and stockholders allowed to profit only when those purposes were met.
We could stand with a bit of that, and habitat loss, and development causing it, should factor in to land use decisions in a granular way. Grifters, poisoners, and organ farming should be dealt with at this level. Not letting them affect our health is far preferable to fixing the problems letting them profit from harming us.
A real Green Revolution would start by ending the legal persons fiction that perverts human rights and elevates profit to one of them.
Thanks!
I am a tree hugger myself. In fact I was quite the active supporter of Earth Day since it's creation until it became hijacked by the climate scare people and they decided that putting emphasis on things we could do now, and the many topics about pollution and waste that we used to talk about. Recycling in general was a product of a lot of the early initiatives when we focused on fixing things rather than pushing a one topic religion as all encompassing and most important. Oh, and many of us understood science and actually applied it to what our ideas and thinking were about.
Those days were hijacked just prior to the Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth propaganda piece.