Post B2RwTrZft7BnVuHtom by jk@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B2RwTc6lOK9NXte6Ai by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-19T16:04:17Z
       
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       often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!
       
 (DIR) Post #B2RwThEOLODtR0FlFw by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-19T16:09:14Z
       
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       you will see things like "plans for recycling center abandoned" and "sanitation workers vote to strike over low pay and poor conditions" and "campaign launched to encourage recycling" and "water company admits wastage due to underinvestment" and "here's how you can save water and Save Our Planet"
       
 (DIR) Post #B2RwTmga40k6LsTqO8 by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-19T16:19:20Z
       
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       this specific form of greenwashing is so successful and has basically normalized the idea that we should be satisfied with a gradually-worsening quality of life. people will genuinely get angry with you if you bring it up, and point to leaflets with stock photos of immaculate, smiling actors who are overjoyed to have remembered to switch off the water while brushing their teeth, rather than perhaps the idea that somebody needs to be paid a living wage to fix the pipes, or dig a new reservoir
       
 (DIR) Post #B2RwTrZft7BnVuHtom by jk@mastodon.social
       2026-01-19T16:24:56Z
       
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       every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon