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by dalmo3 1329 days ago
> creating no change

It's much more likely that the change these activists want to create will make the world a worse place to live than without it.

The generous interpretation is that fighting against greenhouse gases is as honourable as fighting against CFC. But you listen to these activists for two seconds and their real goal is to "dismantle capitalism" and that gets no sympathy from me.

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> But you listen to these activists for two seconds and their real goal is to "dismantle capitalism

That's their goal because the fundamental aspect of capitalism - i.e. the idea that profit maximization for its own sake is the top priority, above all else - is largely what has led to the currently-escalating climate crisis. It's kind of hard to be a climate activist and not be critical of the very ideology responsible for climate destruction.