Anarchism

Enough of this. This is one of the dumbest takes Gelderloos has had and there are a lot of dumb takes he has put forth. He can join Chomsky in the pile of anarchist authors doing more harm than good. He had one good essay on non-violence and it mostly served as a way to help cancel Ward Churchill, whose Pacifism as Pathology is just much better. Use your critical thinking skills on this one. Global warming is anthropogenic and your consumerist behaviors have always driven these things. At any time we could have been like, what I have is enough for me, but we didn't we bought the new iphones and the new jordans and every other dumb thing the billionaires sold us, when all we really needed was reliable food, shelter and clothing. Now we are buying their AI while having the audacity to be mad they are building the datacenters. Stop. We are the problem and we could have changed our behavior, but we didn't. Now the earth is being ravaged for the lithium for your e-bike when a regular bike worked just fine (if you are disabled and need an e-bike you are excluded from this critique, because you aren't forming the destructive trend I am talking about by using a mobility device), rare earths for your phones and computers and trees to build mansions nobody needs to live in, but everybody wants anyway. Our insatiable hunger for bullshit is why we are here in this climate catastrophe that will never get better, only worse. If we all keep clinging to shit like this to pass the buck onto just one or two humans we are actually just outsourcing our own power to said people. Take personal responsibility and collective responsibility and organize together and do better, or stop whining when somebody identifies humans as the parasites. It has nothing to do with colonialism or eugenics, because I will go further and say white people are the parasites... Whiteness is the disease and if you want to fix this shit, don't whitewash yourself to fit into their disease of a culture. Gelderloos is simply giving cover for the whitewashing of the world, whether that's his intention or not. Enough is enough.

Calling humans the parasite is literally eco fascist rhetoric

GOOD POST!

The "population problem" narrative is just baby steps towards eco-fascism when the real problem is the devouring of resources by advanced capitalist systems. The USA consumes at 5x the per capita rate as the rest of the world for instance. This is often framed as a problem with regard to the development of the global south, which is just incredibly racist. "The lifestyle of USA is unsustainable if everyone else tries to do it too!" There's a complete lack of self-awareness that feeds into the construction of an Us-vs-Them perspective. This is just another iteration of the same "white man's burden" fascist fantasy.