Setheneran

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Just because you can’t see the hand that’s choking you doesn’t mean you aren’t still being assaulted. Just because the violence is invisible doesn’t mean it isn’t still violence. Capitalism and Liberal Centrism use obfuscation, backdoor dealing, evasion, scapegoating, propaganda, and the ignorance of the people living under these systems to conceal and distract from the invisible violence inherent to wealth disparity. 

The existence of the ultra wealthy is inherently violent. They use financial, political, and social privlege to take food from the mouths of the hungry, medicine from the sick, and homes from the unhoused. Venture capitalism and industrial wealth deal directly in committing violence against people. Our quality of life, our environment, our institutions; even the lives and futures of our fucking children have been indisputably and irrevocably changed for the worse if not outright destroyed to serve the bank accounts of the greedy few. Unchecked grifting and those who uphold the system that allow it have killed millions and will only continue to do so. 

Captitalism is cultural violence. It is the monster that eats its own young. Those who use their privlege and power to maintain a system that was built on and incentivizes the exploitation of and disregard of human life deserve fucking death. 

You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.

This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.

I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.

This orange peel story was huge years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/

Beavers reintroduced to historic wetlands improve them at such a level that we can see the improvements from space: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/

Africa is successfully slowing desertification and restoring historic farming soil with their Green Wall project: https://welcomeafrica.org/en/africa-combats-desertification-with-a-belt-of-life/

There has even been success at regrowing coral reefs--something which I am old enough to be told was impossible. But people have been hard at work for decades since then, and this is one of the results: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308123248.htm

REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.