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yentl-anshel · 9 months

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it's late, so I'm not going to articulate this right, but I find it so fascinating (and telling) when people separate environmental issues from social issues... as though being concerned for the environment is a wealthy white abled thing to do. as though we don't all live in the environment. as though Indigenous people don't protect 80% of the world's biodiversity. as though poor communities and communities that are predominantly not white and disabled people are not bearing the brunt of environmental issues right now.

like, I'm not saying that there isn't a sector of people out there who are single-issue on the environment. however, nature suffering is, in fact, a social issue, and social issues are not going to be adequately addressed without discussing the environment/climate crisis/environmental racism.

#idk perhaps a smidge of thinking critically might help us out here #re the post that claims that caring about public transit as an environmental issue is worse? somehow?? than caring about it as a social one #that's just a baffling take to me #newsflash #people can care about more than one thing!#and in fact better public transit gets us MULTIPLE benefits!#environmentalism #climate #climate change #public transit

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