Thread by @SteB777

I am putting my thread written spontaneously underneath @GeorgeMonbiot's tweet, which is focused fury, in a proper thread. This is so it can be read like thread. Although I won't be able to number it, so look for unroll at the end. There's a few additional tweets.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1485508859154284544

This is the most abominable act of ecocide I have ever heard of. The equivalent of human genocide, but on our life support systems. Deliberate ecocide, rather than inadvertent ecocide through stupidity, is the most EVIL act imaginable. It is genocide of future generations.

I do not use these terms lightly. When European colonists first reached the Americas, they waged constant ecocide against the native inhabitants. Simply because they had a deep attachment to the land and wouldn't yield to them. so they tried to exterminate their whole culture.

The European colonists were used to conquest where they militarily defeated the leader's military forces, of a similar culture, and simply replaced them as leaders of that kingdom or empire. Yet whilst there were a few local empires eg. Incas, Aztecs etc, mostly there was none.

This infuriated the European colonists, because they would defeat the native inhabitants militarily, but they would refuse to bow to the rule of these colonists, because the European colonists were a nature hating people who had a similar attitude to the natural world.

Likewise, these European colonists had a similar attitude to the Amazon rainforests etc. It was difficult to simply clear it and farm it like they were used to in their native lands, because the soil was soon exhausted by their model of farming.

Of course the nature haters will cleverly say, but oh some of these land grabbers have native blood so what I say is rubbish, but they've been fully assimilated into the European origin colonial mindset that has gone on to dominate the whole world. A toxic nature hating culture.

What allowed the European colonial mindset to go onto dominate the world, is not their technology and superiority, as most of this culture see it. But because this culture had developed a psychopathic mindset, in which natural systems had no other purpose but to be exploited.

All other human cultures had some sort of deep connection to the land and natural systems, and so limited their rapaciousness, but the European culture had none, in the manner of the individual psychopath, who just uses everyone and cares about none but themselves.

The European colonialist culture had a view, that if land wasn't being mindlessly over-exploited for profit, that it was purely wasteland, meaning what is says, wasted land, if it is not over-exploited for profit.

Not all Europeans saw it like this. However, the dominant mindset of their leadership saw it like this, and any view contrary to this, was seen as weakness. Just like an individual psychopath sees anyone who is not utterly ruthless like them is weak and deserves to be exploited.

Some may call this a rant, but it's focused fury I have felt all my life at the mindless destruction of our natural systems, our life support systems. Unlike others who misguidedly blame the human species for this, my fury is focused on the culture responsible.

You see, it is not humans responsible for this. Homo sapiens did not act like this for 99% of the 2-300,000 years our species existed. The mindset responsible for this, only developed in the last 1000 years. Yes civilization is older, but not this mindset.

The excuse, the myth, of the European colonialist culture, is that all other civilizations would have developed this mindset given time. That it was only the superiority of the European culture that allow them to get there first.

As I say, this is almost exactly the view of the individual pathological narcissistic/psychopath, who sees themselves as superior to all others, and anyone not as ruthless as themselves, as weak and worthy of ruthless exploitation.

This myth that every other culture would have done this, if they had only been clever enough to get there first, is what leads many to mistakenly conclude that it is the human species that is responsible, not just one particular culture/world view.

This world view, is pathological and irrational, because it is sawing of the branch of perceived superiority and dominance it is sitting on. This is what makes it irrational, and a demonstrably false and pathological view of things.

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