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There's nothing new about the "individual change" versus "system change" #climate arguments. 19thC abolitionists had the same division. Ask yourself: if you lived in the US in 1840, would you buy slave produced sugar? Or would you be saying "don't sugar shame me"? 1/
Here's a quote from an "individual action" is pointless abolitionist: 2/
Here's a quote from the representatives of the representatives of the Reformatory Union Free Produce Society: 3/
And William Lloyd Garrison himself seemed to be of two minds on the subject, in essence, saying, "Don't you dare sugar shame the Phillipecs." 4/
A little more of this, with a link to even more, here: wordpress.com/post/livesusta…
And a searchable archive of The Liberator, here:
theliberatorfiles.com/liberator-scan…

Me, I am with the Reformatory Union Free Produce Society. /F
Here's a better link to my WordPress blog: livesustainablynow.com/2020/01/21/ind…

(accidentally linked to the editing page not the blog)
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Karl Coplan
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I find that I am having a deeply personal (and negative) reaction to this @drvox thread. Why? Because I have made living a great life with a defensible carbon footprint a part of my identity, and one of the most prominent public voices on climate is essentially saying 1/
“Ha, you fool, don’t you know that your symbolic acts of sacrifice won’t make any difference in the world?” Would @drvox say to a vegan that their symbolic self deprivation has not saved one cow from slaughter? Making a personal lifestyle commitment to a cause is not just abt 2/
drawing a direct line to a tangible result - it is about the inner peace that comes from living consistently with deeply held beliefs about the gravity of climate change. And I know that my own emissions reductions actually have reduced total global emissions, something that 3/
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Karl Coplan
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When I hear ppl saying that we need systems change and not culture change to address #climate breakdown, I think ppl overstate the ability of top down law reform to change culture. Law reform is not particularly effective and changing culture. 1/
Guess what - the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments did not achieve the end of slavery, equality, or the right to vote for African Americans. Slave state culture maintained near total African servitude, inequality, and vote suppression for a century b/c it was in the culture. 2/
Prohibition was written into the constitution. People did not stop drinking b/c it was in the culture, and the temperance forces didn’t give resources to enforce prohibition b/c it drinking really didn’t affect them except philospophically. 3/
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@SarahEMyhre @sciam Perhaps not outrage, but concern about individual actions. What you call corporate greed is also individual action - individual corporate managers that act based on a system that rewards profit over concern for the environment. 1/
@SarahEMyhre @sciam When individuals drive, fly, and heat large houses without concern for their global impact, they are likewise responding to a system of short term rewards. But changing that system will take a collective change of ethics - which has to take the form of a change in conduct. 2/
@SarahEMyhre @sciam Try substituting other issues for "Climate" in your sub-head - "discrimination" or "harassment" or "economic inequality," does it still work? Why is individual conduct important in these other areas, but not climate? Doesnt the aggregation of individual conduct = systemic problem
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no doubt the prime minister will have noticed the shift in the public mood, and the media, around climate change.

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A week of @ExtinctionR protests begins today across the UK - in Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, London and here in Bristol, where they will occupy a city centre bridge. The aim to get Govt to change #climate policy, but police are concerned about local short term effects. More @GMB
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1. Life is about change. We change jobs, school, how we look, teachers, neighborhood and so on. God is always doing new things in your life, and if you don't constantly adjust, you might be praying about something God has already done. #Change #PreparingForYourNextSeason
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1/ If the article/writer claims a certain cost of acting on climate, does it also make claims about the cost of not acting on climate?
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1. I didn't realize how badly Trump has eviscerated access to federal #climate data, so I went and looked at the USGS site.
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