The world is a single interwoven pattern of unacceptable truths.

The US lifestyle uses 8 times the natural resources the world can sustain, if we all shared it. The top 10% in America consume VASTLY more than that.

Media still working on “killing unarmed black people is bad.”
US Black Lives Matter protests are huge.

I read 10 million slaves in Africa today, including actual slave markets in Libya.

No systemic understanding, anywhere, but all the problems are systemic.

Catastrophic right across the landscape. This is never going to work.
We are hitting the buffers super hard. US economic collapse from 2008 was the bubble bursting. It’s all caving in, because the people being sacrificed to keep the bubble inflated are fighting back.

“Shooting the rapids” requires a goal state.

What is a credible better future?
You tour Brussels, home to all the great European political institutions.

This is how it was made.

America, just the same. Jefferson enslaved his own children.

The fact that these facts are not central to our narratives is what systemic racism means.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/
Nearly everybody in the west is rich, over-consuming, and implicated in modern slavery.

Don’t believe me? Take 20 minutes to put your details in these three calculators.

Now tell me: are you part of the problem, or part of the solution?

All of us.

https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1272378329006583809?s=21 https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1272378329006583809
What we need is a catastrophic failure of western ignorance around the realities of their lifestyle.

Nothing more and nothing else than the simple truth about how these lifestyles are maintained is enough.

Slavery didn’t end, and ecocide is now, poorest against the wall first.
Slavery did not end.

Slavery did NOT END.

SLAVERY DID NOT END.

Why is this so hard do people to understand? There are still huge numbers of slaves.

Were we intending to stop this, or do w just shrug and go back to protesting other stuff?

http://Slaveryfootprint.org  my friends.
Even western progressives can’t perceive a world where they are not gigantically rich compared to the rest of the world.

Climate change is a hard constraint, my dears. US average CO2 is five humans worth of consumption, and that’s much the same for other natural resources. Plan?
If we don’t start paying attention to this stuff soon... oh wait. That’s not happening is it?

NZ is about three times over footprint, by the way. It’s not much more sustainable there.

France is way better. A bit under twice, fuelled by nuclear.

Also machine gun battles today.
This world is fucked if we can’t build an accurate geography

This catastrophic western overconsumption is literally killing the entire world

It all goes down the same memory hole as this.

Climate change is genocide, and genocide is business as usual.

Figure out your position.
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