Global warming is our responsability, not politicians

It's so easy to put the responsibilities of global warming on politicians or countries, blaming them for the existing evident problems and at the same time we ourselves abstain from any type of error having to do with it. Honestly, after all... we ALL are social justice warriors.

Global warming has to do with pollution and, at its core, over consumption. Yes. You. Me. They. Ie all of us. Instead of buying new smartphones every year despite their explosive behaviour, new cars despite not needing a new vehicle for transportation (but rather getting it  to show off our social marketed status), the newest trendy device in audiovisual (HD, Full HD, 3D, LED, 4K, curved or whatever comes next), why not stopping production of unnecessary products for 2 years? Could you live with having only 1 of the following things new every 2 years?

Smartphone

Car

TV or anything audiovisual

Computer

Clothes...

Or anything really.

We. Do. Not. Need. New. Toys. Every. Year. 

Not all companies can afford to produce new shiny products yearly but certainly the top brands can. 

Imagine a world in which there is no need to dig for raw material, transport it to the factory, produce things out of it, transport the made things to new countries, store these in these different countries, sell them, perhaps recall them if needed every couple of month and so on...

That - i.e. we not indirectly asking the company giants to dig for raw materials - would certainly reduce the carbon impact on our planet. You think it will make the economy collapse? Well. Think it through twice. In the meantime while digging, part of the World is collapsing due to this excessive consumism. But as long as we (mostly in the West) can have our toys and claim we are the good guys, everything is fine, right? Think again. And next time you need something new, think thrice before going through with it...

Trump is out of the Paris accord and he is right

We keep on restricting countries to do what they want but we currently allow companies like Exxon, Apple and Starbucks to produce in several countries, increasing pollution and trash all over the planet. Just look around you in a city - which companies trash do you see the most of? At the end, these companies make more money for the famous 1% leaving their host countries a mess and/or with garbage everywhere.

Even Monsanto says no to pollution but destroys more nature that we can account for around the world. Stop the bullshit. Really.

 

Apple mines for rare materials and destroys the environment in every country they are related to. Besides enslaving Chinese workers for the sake of yearly Iphones. Exxon... Should I really spell it out for you? Honestly?

Profit is master and businesses do not care about the environment. Just like you. Yes. You like to think you are green and ecologically minded because you say "I am for the reduction of the green house effect". Good. Now show it. What about those little pads for your Nespresso machine? Terrible, terrible. Those cigarettes you smoke? Do you recycle the butts? Those clothes you buy at Primark - do you know how they´re made? And whose children made them? Those products from among other Mondelēz International with palm oil, did you know that the use of this oil is equal to taking down rain forest in order to plant more of these palms to create more palm oil? 

 

All the pollution comes from an excess of useless production, but are you ready to not buy a car every year? Or to not buy the newest year model of TV, smartphone, audio or video system? Do you really need so many clothes and shoes? Do you really need to buy prepared food with ingredients from the other side of the world (like the ones with palm oil)? Or to every day have fresh fruit coming from exotic places? Do you really want to not create tons of trash a year with the fast-food industry packaging (and boldly considering that you are in fact also eating trash)?

No worries. You are against Trump and his non-adherence to the Paris accord. Damn it feels good to be a good person.

You want to change the climate? Fine. Just start by taking measures yourself. Make less trash to destroy Earth yourself.

Why aren't the US policing North Korea as they should?

Really guys? Come on! Just bomb them and democratize them back to stone age.

You've been doing that from your white horse, freeing people from the oppression of so many tyrants! We'll skip the notorious genocides on the native Americans as you were the oppressors, it doesn't fit the theme of this article. Let's focus on this century: many wars previous to these happening the last 17 years were actually legitimate, as legitimate as killing other people can be, but still you were not always the bad guys (you still helped Europe to not speak Soviet Russian after WW II. And yes, Europe doesn't speak German because of the Red Army, not you guys - so get over it.

First came the 2001 and ongoing War on Terror in which you attacked Afghanistan for harbouring the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia, to have sent citizens of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon to make the 9-11 attacks (despite all the controversy about this being a false flag or not).

As we all can see it was a victory, and the country is now liberated.

Same with Iraq in 2003-2011 were the Weapons of Mass Destructions are still being found, despite the comic demonstration of Colin Powell at the UN.

Iraq - or what's left of it - is now a full grown democracy for all to see.

Finally we get to the Libyan War of 2011. Let's get rid of another baddy that kills its own people and liberate one more country this century!

Now nobody talks about Libya: the country has descended into living just like in the middle age with all the little warlords controlling the leftovers of a destroyed country.

And finally Syria with another dictator that kills its own people. Mixed with Daesh, the Kurds, Turkish expansionism, hundred of thousands of migrants, thousands of terrorists and oil in the middle.

Don't get me wrong - these guys were bad guys but at least the Middle East was stable. Democracy is like maturity. You don't get it when you turn 18, it takes time to understand that issues are solved with words and consensus. Not an AK-47 or bombs. But I am diverging. Let's get back to North Korea.

Yeah! North Korea! Why don't you save them as those above mentioned countries? They have been under worse treatment since at least 1953!

Too afraid to get into a fight against an enemy that is not against the rope? Or just a lack of oil? You are right, too much trouble for just some civilians with no chance of profit.

Better to focus on Iran - they are next right? Or maybe you prefer Somalia and Lebanon to come first?

Macron, du pareil au même

France will be the loser of their next Presidential elections.

Again.

After choosing to not elect a candidate like in 2002, where a crook was elected instead of a fascist (Jacques Chirac was elected to avoid Jean Marie le Pen to become President), and in 2012 where an incompetent François Hollande was skyrocketed to power to punish Nicolas Sarkozy for his delusion of grandeur and self enrichment (one of his first actions as President was to double his salary as President), 2017 seems to be the year when the golden yuppie boy Macron will be elected President to avoid Marine le Pen.

Macron is just a rebranding of François Hollande policies that favours the Corporations turning France in a more US/UK corporatism where workers are just another disposable commodity to use for profit.

For the rest of his policies just check how the US/UK are acting France will be following by a mere meter - or should I say an inch? Sure, Macron wants to accept the refugees and migrants that both US  and the UK are not accepting - despite that these countries policitics are being the real cause of those migrations.

SSDD.

At least Chirac didn't follow the US/UK war for oil in Irak 2003 which lead to today´s Daesh and migrant crisis.

For 2022 I wonder if the French people will finally pick a better candidate after realizing that they were duped just like in 2012. Unfortunately it will probably only be Marine le Pen that will be able to say: I told you so!