According to a new poll from Reuters and Ipsos, almost 70 percent of Americans want climate change to be addressed with aggressive action.
But the poll found that people in the US don’t want the decades of corporate greed and malfeasance to be a burden put on the backs of the poor and working class. They don’t want regressive “green” taxes that put the onus on the poor instead of corporate oligarchs. The French government tried that plan and the people rose up as the yellow vest movement. Americans, like the French, are willing to make personal sacrifices to improve the planet, but they do not want to pay for the greed of others.
The poll did not mention people’s opinions on the importance of seizing power and control of the means of production and automation.
The results of the recent poll underscore a crucial challenge for the authoritarian overlords to make a convincing argument that the working poor and not the rich must shoulder the bill to save the planet.
The majority of the people polled want the US to move to 100% clean energy in the next ten years and they want that industry to “create new jobs and growth” and they don’t want clean energy to “hurt jobs and the economy.”
People don’t support climate action plans that place the burden on them rather than corporate oligarchs who are causing the most damage to the environment—and have the money and the means of production and automation […]
via People in the US Demand Climate Action, Just Not on Their Backs, Poll Finds — ANARCHIMEDIA
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Spoiled brat Americans believe the oligarchs are single-handedly creating climate change, not realizing that commercial consumerism and the bellicose history of the US is fueled primarily by taxpayers and workers like them who invest retirement funds in the stock market, buy cheap, disposable junk at Walmart, fast food at McDonalds’ and support international shipping and the Department of Defense’s insatiable appetite for oil.
Until Americans are willing to grow up across the board, and quit buying the products and stocks that churn profits on Wall Street, and keep bankers fat with the interest on their debt-backed over-consumption, said American emotional two-year-olds are aggressively acting to promote climate change toward an even hotter hell for us all.
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This is all very true – clearly there must be a change in consumer behavior to solve the climate emergency. But first we need to get the elite oligarchy to quit psychologically brainwashing them to compulsively crave all the useless junk they buy.
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As long as people are gullible enough to believe the brainwashing, they are fair game for the predators. There’s nothing new about brainwashing, and the hardest to convince are those who are the strongest believers.
I do see the lies unraveling, though, and more and more people questioning the myths. Still, there’s a lot of money to be made on Wall Street and Madison Avenue, and the oligarchs have the media in their pockets.
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