ARE LIFESTYLE POLITICS A DISTRACTION?
TANSY: Of course it’s vital people make the most sustainable choices they can – but this is a small part of the equation and gets too much attention at the expense of collective political and systemic change.
The last 40 years have seen a massive rise in corporate power, unmatched by national or global legislation to prevent the destruction of our planet. We worry far too much about how to change individual behaviour, meanwhile 71 per cent of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions originated from 100 fossil fuel companies.
The key question has to be not ‘how can I consume differently’ but ‘how do we hold these climate arsonists to account?’ We hold them to account not by recycling or turning down the temperature on washing machines, but by creating a global movement, a power bloc, that can force through
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