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  • buddhabound@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We all know this. We are all powerless to change it. Corporations and governments control whether or not it can be changed. Politicians worldwide are being fed by the pollution industry. The poors voting changes nothing until the corporations and politicians decide to do something about it.

    Walkable cities? Great idea. Needs politicians to approve zoning restrictions. Don’t drive cars? Great idea. Needs politicians to build public transportation infrastructure. Electric cars? Great idea. Needs corporations to produce them at an affordable cost. Etc etc etc.

    There will never be a day when 10 billion people in the world get on the same page to demand the end of anything. We can’t even get a tenth of that many to agree to stop killing each other over border squabbles.

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      1 year ago

      Re: walkable cities, how tf did some people misconstrue that into not being able to leave your city? It’s madness.

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I think it’s just timing, the phrase arose around the time that it was becoming obvious that covid vaccines were perfectly safe, had no 5g chips, did not cause infertility, et cetera.

        The various social groups that had coalesced around covid related conspiracies needed something new and un-disprovable to use as an outward manifestation of their internal feelings of persecution, so they just lapped it up.