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Beau says:
Today is Earth Overshoot Day, consumption choices today determine whether we embrace sustainability or face authoritarian socialism tomorrow.
Environmental advocates, policymakers
The urgency and potential consequences of failing to address overconsumption and climate change in the context of potential authoritarian socialism.
#EarthOvershootDay #ClimateChange #Socialism #Conservation #Sustainability
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today is Earth Overshoot Day.
Now what that means in English is that today we have used up all of the resources that
will be regenerated by the Earth by the end of the year.
We've still got quite a few months left.
To put this in American terms, if you make $30,000 a year, you have already spent $30,000.
Everything else is going on a credit card in the hopes of something in the future fixing
everything for you. Anytime we start to talk about overconsumption or mitigating climate
change, anything like that, somebody comes out of the woodwork screaming about socialism.
So real quick, go ahead and Google the definition and you're going to get some definition that's
similar to a political theory advocating community control
of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
That's what you're going to run into.
It's going to be something like that.
Means of production, distribution, and exchange.
That's critical to socialism.
Socialism is not when the government does stuff, which
is the way it gets portrayed on Fox News.
Anytime the government's about to do something,
Fox doesn't like. That's not what socialism is. It's an actual theory and you can look
up the definition of it. The funny part about calling plans to mitigate climate change socialist
is that the only way I know of to guarantee socialism comes to the United States is to
not do anything about climate change.
So you've probably seen the doomsday scenarios, right?
All the flooding and everything and you're laughing because California gets hit pretty
hard.
Ha ha, left coast liberals, where do you think they're going?
They're not actually going to just sit there and drown.
Where do you think they're going?
Coming to you.
They're coming to all these red states.
That's where they're going to show up.
And you're thinking, well, we don't have the infrastructure for that.
You're right, you don't.
How do you think you're going to get it?
A lot of central planning involved in that.
It would be kind of like the government might control the means of production,
distribution, and exchange to allocate those resources to deal with an emergency
like that.
Remember all of those executive orders you were terrified of under Obama,
signed into effect by Kennedy mostly to deal with the threat of a Soviet nuclear attack.
If you actually read them, you'll find the phrase production and distribution in it.
If you don't want socialism in the United States, you'd better become a conservationist
pretty quick, because if we don't do something about consumption and we don't alter the
way in which we live in this disposable society. We're going to get socialism. And we're not
going to get the cool Nordic model. No. We're going to get the one with guns and boots.
Because it's going to be an emergency. And there's going to be panic. So it's your choice.
You can become green, or you can become red.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good night.
Thank you.
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