queeranarchism:

random-with-garlic How about this:I don’t care if I die in the process but 70% of all humans should be randomly incinerated at once.

How about this: Whether you know it or not, comments like yours are paving the way for a real mass murder. I know that sounds intense, but hear me out.

The people that are actually dying from climate change and will die in much larger numbers soon if we don’t take action are people in post-colonized countries, people of color and the poor.

The powerful have a strong investment in making us not care about that because saving the lives of the victims of climate change requires uncomfortable things like redistributing property and opening borders.

To avoid that, they’re feeding a culture of apathy and either completely deny that it is happening or pretend that it is beyond our control.

And every ‘humanity as a whole must suffer for destroying the earth’ and ‘hey I would support random death even if it kills me’ take is BAD because while that theoretical random killing will never happen it helps create acceptance of a very real mass dying of millions, maybe billions, of actual people in the near future, a mass murder whose conditions are in the making as we write this.