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is snuffing out future generations by the fouling of our nest on an industrial scale now seen as benevolence?
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Call climate change what it is: violence | Rebecca Solnit | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Call it what it is, "violence".
Discuss...
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Call climate change what it is: violence | Rebecca Solnit | Comment is free | theguardian.com
If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you're the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth.
Call it what it is, "violence".
Discuss...