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Very funny how the most brazen act of industrial sabotage in decades will be “investigated” by Sweden, NATO’s newest applicant, under close supervision of the US and will exclude Russia, the country that built and operates the pipelines.
Given our bias toward land biomes, our concept of healthy oceans is even more distorted. Beginning in the 1800s, the largest animals to ever live were subjected to an industrialized slaughter.
The reason? To feed our insatiable hunger for lamp oil, derived from their blubber.
There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”.
This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵
Westerners have a problem seeing imperialism for the same reasons they’re blind to systemic racism:
They simply accept that a continent like Africa is innately “poor”, just as they accept that black wealth is perpetually fixed at 1/10th of white wealth.
We need another talk about the affable white working class goof to American MIC propagandist pipeline