Anthropocene

[oakfarm]

Yesterday I and a guy called Robert were at lecture about the Anthropocene, "relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.". One thing, at the end of the lecture the lecturer showed a picture of demonstrants from all over the world. First anti-mining demonstrates in Greenland and anti-oil sand protesters in Alberta, Canada. Then, lastly, a photo from somewhere in the US there white, overweight men hold signs with the message “Trump digs Coal”. Thinking about it, that’s three places in North America, not “all over the world”. The point is, one wonder if those Trump fans (pro-pollution protesters?) know that they, in a lecture in Sweden, should be used to demonstrate that’s wrong with the world? The other protesters demonstrated the good forces in the world.

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[wantedonvoyage]

The sad part is they would probably not care, or even wear it as a badge of honor. There is almost a willful anti-intellectualism coupled with the real problem that our government has done little or nothing to help those people whose jobs in fuel-extraction industries have either gone away or fallen out of favor because of the impact. In their view, it's all very well and good to preach about the "somedays" of climate change when they don't have a job and nobody is telling them what they can do to get one.