As for mixing climate activism and the Ukraine war, I’ve actually seen quite a few speeches and contributions by climate-focused orgs on peace demonstrations outlining the absurd damage of militaries and this war specifically on the environment. It is possible to combine the two to make genuine anti-capitalist, anti-war points. She simply chooses not to.
Fair point. I guess what I tried to say there is that the war (and specifically Ukraine continuing and eventually winning it) is rather tangential to fighting the climate crisis and an odd cause to put in your famous climate organisation behind uncritically. Imagine being so European that human lives are less relevant than “holding Russia accountable” on damages to local ecology.
Totally with you there. It is only tangentially related. I just wanted to point out that principled, anti-capitalist environmentalists can and actually have to be active in the peace movement. You can use the popularity of this issue to agitate against war. People do it. Thunberg just refuses to. But not because her main focus is climate change, but because she’s a dishonest, bourgeois white liberal.
Fair point. I guess what I tried to say there is that the war (and specifically Ukraine continuing and eventually winning it) is rather tangential to fighting the climate crisis and an odd cause to put in your famous climate organisation behind uncritically. Imagine being so European that human lives are less relevant than “holding Russia accountable” on damages to local ecology.
Totally with you there. It is only tangentially related. I just wanted to point out that principled, anti-capitalist environmentalists can and actually have to be active in the peace movement. You can use the popularity of this issue to agitate against war. People do it. Thunberg just refuses to. But not because her main focus is climate change, but because she’s a dishonest, bourgeois white liberal.