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ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE PROBLEM WITH STATES:

The recent hype about the climate crisis is literally fucking disgusting, it's the kind of thing that makes me realise that all of our opinions are being fabricated, to serve politicians needs.
The climate crisis is not a new thing, far from actually. We've known about it for around a hundred years or so.

I'm not trying to say that global warming isn't real or manmade, it's definitely both of those things. My problem is with this constant focus on leviathan power structures, both natural and manmade.
It's like the old marxist cliché about worldwide communist takeover: it's either reform or revolution. And what choice does that leave to the individual?

It's the same with the contemporary narrative on climate change. Over the last 10-20 years or so, we've seen it shift from individuals or small communes exploring different, more eco-friendly ways of living, and various small-scale activism, to top-down legislative environmentalism by the government.
Now, I'm not just being pissy about the original activists not getting the recognition they deserve, the problem is that states and statism are super inefficient ways of governing, as witnessed by the 100 years it took them to react to climate change.

Change ALWAYS comes from the bottom-up. Sure, it may be co-opted by the government at some point and turned into legislature, but that doesn't change where it came from.

The fight for the environment has always been a fight against various governments and the companies that they watch over. Most industries that tend to be damaging to the environment, also tend to be wholly unsustainable without the massive support they receive from the state.
Throwback to the nature-loving nazis, (and all other states for that matter), building a giant network of roads with taxpayer money.

>By socializing the costs of the transportation of goods amongst all people, rather than amongst those who produce and consume the goods, there is far less of an incentive for consumers to consume locally.