Climate Blockade - FAFO
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/burning-man-protest-climate-change-environment
Lots more background and context for the incident.
Concerning the protesters' mindsets:
[a protester commented] that the tech utopianism woven into Burning Man culture had engendered a sense of complacency amongst many of its attendees. “There are a lot of people thinking, oh, I’m a vegan, I drive an electric car, I’m working in sustainability,” she said. “ It’s a very technocratic, privileged mindset.”
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... – the activists hoped the protest would highlight how our climate emergency requires wider systemic change is needed beyond the personally transformative experiences of self-realization that can occur at a festival.And this struck me as rather observant:
“The climate movement has reached a point where there is a split between climate mitigation through technological fixes, and climate justice that’s more oriented around systemic inequalities,” said [another protester]. “We have to shift away from Burning Man’s green capitalism and focus on degrowth.”
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@LuFins-Dad (not too) cheap Bourbon, everywhere.