Climate Change Isn’t Your Fault. It’s Capitalism’s

This myth goes something like this. “I’m going to eat less meat! I’m going to travel less on airplanes!! And anyone who does those things is bad! They must not care about the planet!” It’s a fairy tale, my friends. Like so many myths, its purpose is to shield us from a truth we don’t want to face — or aren’t capable of facing yet.

You're not the problem. The system is, The global
economy's broken, and self-blame is not going to fix it.

Now, this is an old American fantasy — the fantasy of individual action. The idea that everything can be fixed by our individual actions — the more heroic, the better. But collective action?Cooperation? Those can never be allowed to exist. It’s the same myth, really, that caused America to end up without a working healthcare, education, or retirement system. Individual action, not collective action — everything’s your fault, and therefore, your responsibility, too. The system can never be at fault. There shouldn’t be a system for anything in the first place, except for anything but profit. Bang! Social collapse.

Here’s the truth.

Read the story Eudiamonia by Umair Haque - “Climate Change Isn’t Your Fault. It’s Capitalism’s.”