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<div>all brilliant but a bit of a rant and an ode to stop shopping</div><div><br></div><div>a better response would be found in the Tim Morton / Justin Brice Guariglia installation maxim:</div><div><br></div><div>"Don't Eco Shop, Eco Vote [Instead]" to which I would add "Do Eco direct action"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, November 2, 2018, 10:00:44 AM EDT, heath bunting <heathbunting@irational.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">as climate change is now an existential threat to all humans<br clear="none">it will become a subject of mass denial<br clear="none"><br clear="none">out of those that accept the collapse though, only self sabotaging people<br clear="none">such as artists and those that have a long view will have the potential <br clear="none">to act and those will be very rare<br clear="none"><br clear="none">for example, we all know that using amazon, google and facebook is against<br clear="none">the interest of all people on the planet, including our own, but we still <br clear="none">use them<br clear="none"><br clear="none">buying an item on amazon feeds directly into the cia drone strike program <br clear="none">in afghanistan, but we continue to buy<br clear="none"><br clear="none">we also know that using mobile telephones is an extreme threat to our <br clear="none">person security, but we all use them<br clear="none"><br clear="none">i remember a time when people would boycott corporations because they <br clear="none">underpaid their staff, now we ignore corporations assassinating people, <br clear="none">because online shopping is convenient<br clear="none"><br clear="none">i invite you all to self sabotage by stop using google, facebook and <br clear="none">amazon and bin your phones and start the revolt<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp3725e799yqt7918008414" id="ydp3725e799yqtfd95575"><br clear="none">On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Julian Oliver wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Dear Spectre,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Posting here a recent interview of French historian Christophe Bonneuil,<br clear="none">> meticulously translated to English by Crystelle Vu:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thoroughly recommended reading, not only as it deeply implicates the near future<br clear="none">> of Europe itself.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 'Climate and collapse: Only Through the Insurrection of Civil Societies Will We<br clear="none">> Avoid the Worst'<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Are we under the threat of an imminent "collapse" as a result of global warming<br clear="none">> and the over-exploitation of resources? For the historian Christophe Bonneuil,<br clear="none">> there is no question: major social, economic and geopolitical upheavals have<br clear="none">> already been triggered and will only accelerate. Instead, the issue needs to be<br clear="none">> repositioned, in turn inciting "political thinking" of the current situation:<br clear="none">> who will be the winners and the losers? How can we exert an influence on the<br clear="none">> nature of these changes? Mass migrations, risk of conflicts over resources:<br clear="none">> despite his brutal observation of this emerging world, the historian appeals to<br clear="none">> avoid the trap of a "romanticism" of collapse. "Another end of the world is<br clear="none">> possible," he says. It is up to civil societies to write the final scenario.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> //<-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Globally warm regards,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> -- <br clear="none">> Julian Oliver<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://julianoliver.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://julianoliver.com</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://criticalengineering.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://criticalengineering.org</a><br clear="none">> PGP <a shape="rect" href="https://julianoliver.com/key.asc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://julianoliver.com/key.asc</a><br clear="none">> Beware the auto-complete life<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">______________________________________________<br clear="none">SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe<br clear="none">Info, archive and help:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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