• Michael@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Hopefully we don’t have to always be dependent on so many other people and services to have basic dignity and sanitation.

    People who live off-grid, van/rv/etc., homestead, etc. lifestyles are pioneering a future where we don’t need services that aren’t likely that great for the environment - such as public sewage, our reliance on fossil fuels to power and heat our homes and electronics, or unsustainable agriculture that isn’t in balance with the environment or even nutritionally-dense.

    I am grateful to the people who enable our standard of living to survive with some semblance of dignity, and especially those focused on solutions, so we can get to the point of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and balance in our environment as a species and planet.

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      4 days ago

      There’s nothing wrong with relying on one another so long as we can, you know, rely on one another.

      That’s the whole point of society and why we’ve been so successful as a species. Division is our only real weakness.

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        21 hours ago

        We need to redefine society if we want to truly unify, and it starts with an universal human bill of rights. Ensuring individual and community-based sovereignty with guiding concepts like direct democracy are important first steps. Dependence on externalities and reliance on impersonal entities like corporations (which largely capture governance, science, and everything else they can) needs to stop if we want to realize a world that is worth living in for ourselves and future generations.

        Society is our doom if we continue to allow pollution, waste, and destruction of our environments on levels we have never seen before, while experts and other people in the know stand silently and cover the situation up, or are largely ignored if they are actually crying out. Environmentally-caused disease and chronic illness are rising to levels that we can no longer ignore or cover up.

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    18 days ago

    Blizzard?

    Climate change is erasing those. Now it’s just do shit outside in modest cold

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    19 days ago

    Personally I live in Texas so the only people enabling me are the Oil companies ensuring I never see a blizzard, from Global Warming.