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My climate guilt is real – but the actual villains keep getting away with it
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Ok, you say the following
For me, the answer is
I suppose it depends on one's perspective.
I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say.
At most I can point out that regulation and organization are entirely unrelated. Regulation is a binding act from the republic, organization is a form of pressure from the public. Entirely different things.
If there's a difference in perspective it's the difference in perspective I've been trying to explain to you: you think you're an individual that is part of the public and is organizing to generate action in someone else (the republic, presumably), we think we're part of the republic and we're collectively regulating. How the public opinion translates to the collective action of regulation is important but incidental. We are the ones regulating as a group, everything that leads to that collective choice is the mechanics of politics, but the government isn't a "they", it's a "we".
That's even dumbing it down, or at least trying to express it in... American-compatible terms. It's not quite right.
I don't see effective regulations being put into place to restrict capitalist exploitation. On the contrary, the regulations are in favor of capitalism, and capitalism is ferosiously distructive.
So, what I mean by saying organise is that due to the fact that neoliberalism has bought off politicians (political systems I should say) worldwide, it is important to organise ourselves in order to get rid of its eternal growth model, which is destroying life on this planet.
The Rojava example is one of my favorite approaches.
I have only lived in europe and these are the conclusions I've made so far.
And by "Europe" you mean "the UK"? Because that may be relevant.
But in any case, then I'm trying to explain the wrong thing to the wrong person. Whether you look at this like an American or not, you're not one. You may or may not have noticed the differences I'm talking about, but you're not part of them.
You're just a performatively anti-system European who is conflating the current system with capitalism. Libertarian, I presume from your example (in the proper use of the word, as opposed to how Americans use it).
That's not the American way of looking at it I'm calling out in the article. The American way of looking at it is asking people to organize not because they're a countercultural movement, but because they see individual action repeated over many individuals as how collective action works. They may or may not be seeking a change of system or regime, but they see political action as something individuals do by themselves to nudge the government leviathan around.
This lady isn't saying organize the way you think about organizing as a leftie libertarian. It's not committees and assemblies and worker self-governance. It's bourgeois liberals complaining to the manager, to which they are entitled as paying customers, in enough bulk to force a specific change. Different things altogether.