30 Environmental Memes That People Who Are Sick Of Capitalism Destroying The Planet Can Relate To, As Shared On This Page
Climate change includes both global warming caused by human-produced greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Even though there have been periods of climatic change throughout history, since the mid-20th century, humans have had an unprecedented impact on the Earth's climate, causing huge problems on a global scale. And one Facebook page perfectly illustrates how many of us feel about it.
It's called Rare and Endangered Memes for Edgy Environmentalists and it gives people exactly what its name suggests.
"This page doesn't adhere to a specific branch of environmentalism or a specific political ideology, although we have hard left leanings," the admins wrote in its 'About' section. "Our goal is simply to save the planet with the power of edgy green meme comics."
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Why does everyone pick on the elephant? Big guy is just chilling in the corner of the room.
Unequal distribution is terrible, but that doesn't mean that overpopulation isn't a problem too. I mean it's self-evident that humanity's total impact on the planet = average impact per person x population. So reducing either would help. And if we want to deal with global inequality by 'levelling up' poorer countries, rather than by reducing wealth in richer countries, then that overpopulation problem is going to become impossible to ignore
Exactly. The world was about to go through massive famines in the early 20th century before synthetic nitrogen was invented. This allows populations to not only maintain but then explode, at the cost of the soil and waters of the Earth. Now farming is one of the most destructive forces to the environment because of all the fertilizers, pesticides, etc that have to be used to maintain such levels of food. Not to mention the cancers and other illnesses we suffer from when we drink the runoff water etc. And while even distribution would help, it wouldn't solve the issue. And this is just food. Places are already running out of fresh water, the other option, desalination is expensive and energy intensive. Another issue is that people grow intensive crops in the wrong place, i.e cotton in Australia and Egypt. There's a lot that has be done but the rich using less and family planning would help a great deal at the least.
Load More Replies... This statement is not correct. Overpopulation is the concern, because it doesn’t stop. It keeps growing. It doesn’t have anything to do with money. It is the main cause of pollution, global warming and hunger. Until people realize that and put caps on our reproduction, the world is never going to be healed, no matter how much plastic we stop making or how many fuel cars we replace with electric ones.
Capping reproduction? Like China tried to do and now they're trying to reverse it a bit because there's too many men vs women and no one to support the aging population? Like the US and Japan? Setting aside ethical issues, limiting procreation causes a whole set of other problems. Let's not.
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An elephant can stay in my back garden for a few nights, if that helps
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Unequal distribution i snot the only issue. Some of the studies forget that a lot of thsoe grains/foods are grown for... livestock. Soyou'd have to stop feeding livestock to feed the world. And, yes, we are past sustainability. WATER, people. WATER...
I think over-population is a major issue but I don't want to murder millions to fix it. Controlling birthrate doesn't appear to work as well as some thought it would. China is a good example. I was doing some searching and it appears as if (I could use a little help here) the lower educated you are the more likely you are to have more children. If this is true, education might help us for the future. As for taxing the rich, that is not realistic as they already pay most of the taxes. Stealing their money wouldn't work. Without those rich folks you wouldn't have a lot of the businesses that end up hiring so many of us. Governments seem unwieldy and self interested and spend like crazy, I don't trust them to run a world without Independent businesses. Hmm, now that I type that, China seem to make it work. maybe China's way is the best way for this world of ours. Most live in a walled garden and most seem content. Being in a free country, that thought makes me shudder, though
That might be done if the population needing food and clothes stays happy just with food and clothes. If they would want a western lower middle class lifestyle, own a car, change smartphone once in 2 year etc, we are still screwed and no billionnaire blaming will help us.
Tried to get this message through to a lady, who fancies herself quite a social justice warrior and women's rights activist... Got accused of mansplaining and whataboutism, and several other nebulously defined liberal sins.
This neglects the cost and logistics of redistribution. Timely sorting, needs assessment, and all other relevant costs are ruled out. Free teleportation would be great
The problem is that the distribution of resources becomes the primary cost.
You know, public roads are 'socialism'. So is safe food, drinking water, medicine, etc... Don't lump in socilism with communism. Communism may incorporate some ideas from socialism, but is a totalitarian system. FYI, socialism and capitalism aren't incompatible. Capitalism works great for the distribution of a lot of goods and services, but it sucks at medical care, criminal justice, infrastructure, and similar things. This American thing of seeing socialism as a boogeyman is a stupid vestige of the red scare in the 1950s.
Load More Replies...Scientists believe that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which includes more than 1,300 scientists from the United States and other countries, forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.
According to the IPCC, the extent of climate change effects on individual regions will vary over time and with the ability of different societal and environmental systems to mitigate or adapt to change.
The IPCC also predicts that increases in global mean temperature of less than 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 3 degrees Celsius) above 1990 levels will produce beneficial impacts in some regions and harmful ones in others. Net annual costs will increase over time as global temperatures increase.
"Taken as a whole," the IPCC states, "the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time."
Of course, we have to do more than create and share memes. But it's a start.
Step 2 of 3: Proceed to dig out their eyes. Step 3 of 3: Stuff eyes into their mouth or up their ass.
The far end of the match plans on living in space in a big penis rocket instead of extinguishing the match 🙄
Capitalism is a broken system, maybe it could work but only with tons of governmental adjustments. It would be better to just switch to something different from different
Let’s see if overpopulation is a myth in another 50-100 years. Why does capitalism keep producing products? To make money - sure. To be able to sell to more and more people as the population keeps growing - definitely. We have a people problem, Mr. Institute. This BS about having enough food and resources is just not true. And if there are 15 billion people on the planet, where are they going to live? And what are they going to get to eat? There’s only so much land that can be farmed, that’s why 95% of us occupy only 10% of it.
There's a hill being developed near my house and I have been sorely tempted to sneak over and plant a bunch of trees in the dead of night.
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Some of these are nonsense. In particular the "We only inhabit 10% of the earth's land mass, our population can double!" trope. Large areas of the earth's land mass are not suitable for habitation or farming and other large chunks are forests that we need for oxygen production.
Plus, space and food is not the only thing humans need. These people forget that humans also use a fuckton of metal and glass.
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We also need to stop blaming corporations and the rich for everything, they are rich and prosperous because we keep buying their crappy products. So stop buying their s**t.
hat are our options? The basic necessities are all mass produced by large companies. No many mom and pop shops hat I know of are making toilet paper.
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Find a way to get rid of capitalism without breaking the global economy and we'll talk.
capitalism doesn't need to be destructive to be profitable
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Imagine and make alternatives and show them! What kind of world would you like to live in? :)
Load More Replies... So many of these are premised on the assertion that capitalism (and implicitly not other alternatives) is based on infinitely expanding resource consumption. Actually, since capitalism (unlike socialism) provides rewards for improving resource utilization efficiency, it relies LESS on expanding resource consumption than socialism. Also consider: in 1800, "40 acres and a mule" was considered what someone needed to prosper from agriculture. Today, a family can live on less than one acre, a 40-fold improvement (actually only 20-fold, since "40 acres and a mule" was hardly a scientific estimate) in the time in which the earth's population grew 6-fold. The rate of growth of the efficiency of resource utilization is increasing, while the rate of population growth is collapsing.
Capitalism, shmapitalism. China, a communist paradise, produces more pollution than a whole lot of noncommunist countries. BP, please stop pandering to the grumpy kiddies, or at least don't categorize these articles under 'Funny, jokes' - create the 'Disgruntled Pseudo-Socialist Hypocrite Who Enjoys All the Perks of Capitalism'. category and stick them there.
Load More Replies... Really love the hate I get from people who must have a new resource-heavy cell phone every other year, and I'm still on a 15-year old Dell laptop...Stop consuming, then they stop mining & manufacturing!
The governments are insisting that this world is going to waste because I didn't recycle that plastic bottle but at the same time they allow billionaires to plan their own private space travels. And that's how serious they handle climate change.
We must begin to separate ideology from human action. Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism are just ideas, the problem is humans using it as an excuse to commit totalitarian acts for power and money. The solution is to recognize the real problem and prevent these human actions that are destroying ourselves and the planet. Try to see the world without ideology, strategize, organize, vote, and take action.
Capitalism is not responsible. Stop blaming capitalism for everything.
It's due to the lack of education and real-life experience, I'm afraid. The capitalism is infinitely better than the socialism in providing for literally every whim and in shaping those whims in us. The real reason behind the gnashing of teeth is our ingrained irresponsible consumption and bloated self-esteem that makes us shift responsibility.
Ridiculous headline. Not a capitalism problem. Stop trying to make capitalism the boogie man and look to your own consumption demands. Very telling that most of the comments here also agree. Stop trying to push this stupid narrative.
Oh lord, If corporations don't take the lead and provide us with sustainable options the average consumer has no other choice but to pollute! Look at toothbrushes for example. Why aren't replaceable heads the norm? They force us to pick a whole new stick that eventually goes into the ocean and pollutes our shores! Don't let me get started on fast fashion and the cosmetics industry which spends billions of dollars to prey on our Psyche and nudge us to buy more and more stuff we really don't need!
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The majority of this thread isn't memes. It's just expressing extreme dislike for capitalism and conservatives. I mean capitalism is flawed, but could be fixed. The media is overwhelmingly liberal
Oh my god. Just a generation of victim blaming. 99% of you made the other 1% rich by buying thier products. By demanding thier products. And yet take absolutely no responsibility. Nothing will ever get better with this mentality.
Really chaos&roses? Ur telling me that u eat beef twice a month, have tech that doesn't break apart every 3 years, eat fruit in season despite other options, have a minimal wardrobe, have reduced your plastic waste to near zero, use renewable energy to power your home and drive an electric vehicle? If so then bravo, but for the rest of us it's near possible if corporations don't get behind sustainability and the government doesn't nudge them.
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A reason why nobody takes all the enviromental warnings serious is that it's ALWAYS connected with some sort of socialism (in the political sense) or even communism. As long as those aren't seperated a majority won't accept either. Envirolism mostly is just a vehicle to introduce a political system rather than solving a serious problem
I mean, communism wasn't exactly great for the planet either... people are greedy so will cut corners
I get the environmental situation and I understand we need to take action but blaming a whole system is not the way, because if capitalism doesn’t work, socialism works even less, I won’t even start in comunism (I live in Cuba, I can tell) what are we gonna do? We need to fix the system, step by step, so is more sustainable for humankind and Earth, but blaming a system we actively take part as if it’s the roots of all evil is nonsense and will take us nowhere.
You do know that every criticism of capitalism isn't a push for communism or socialism, right?
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China is the worlds largest user of coal fired power plants in the would, the largest consumer plastics in manufacturing in the world, They are a Communist nation so..........
Robert, China is the world's largest producer of products that the world demands. Maybe if every country only built thier companies in thier country and not outsourced to China to make/build products, then pollution would be bad all over instead if just China. Maybe if American pharma companies and mobile phone companies produced thier products in America then China would have less coal fired factories polluting thier country. More than half of the producers in China are from offshore.
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Nope it's capitalism. 2 kids born in a middle income houehold of a development nation have a much higher carbon footprint than a family of 5 in say.. rural Africa.
Load More Replies... Some of these are nonsense. In particular the "We only inhabit 10% of the earth's land mass, our population can double!" trope. Large areas of the earth's land mass are not suitable for habitation or farming and other large chunks are forests that we need for oxygen production.
Plus, space and food is not the only thing humans need. These people forget that humans also use a fuckton of metal and glass.
Load More Replies... We also need to stop blaming corporations and the rich for everything, they are rich and prosperous because we keep buying their crappy products. So stop buying their s**t.
hat are our options? The basic necessities are all mass produced by large companies. No many mom and pop shops hat I know of are making toilet paper.
Load More Replies... Find a way to get rid of capitalism without breaking the global economy and we'll talk.
capitalism doesn't need to be destructive to be profitable
Load More Replies... Imagine and make alternatives and show them! What kind of world would you like to live in? :)
Load More Replies... So many of these are premised on the assertion that capitalism (and implicitly not other alternatives) is based on infinitely expanding resource consumption. Actually, since capitalism (unlike socialism) provides rewards for improving resource utilization efficiency, it relies LESS on expanding resource consumption than socialism. Also consider: in 1800, "40 acres and a mule" was considered what someone needed to prosper from agriculture. Today, a family can live on less than one acre, a 40-fold improvement (actually only 20-fold, since "40 acres and a mule" was hardly a scientific estimate) in the time in which the earth's population grew 6-fold. The rate of growth of the efficiency of resource utilization is increasing, while the rate of population growth is collapsing.
Capitalism, shmapitalism. China, a communist paradise, produces more pollution than a whole lot of noncommunist countries. BP, please stop pandering to the grumpy kiddies, or at least don't categorize these articles under 'Funny, jokes' - create the 'Disgruntled Pseudo-Socialist Hypocrite Who Enjoys All the Perks of Capitalism'. category and stick them there.
Load More Replies... Really love the hate I get from people who must have a new resource-heavy cell phone every other year, and I'm still on a 15-year old Dell laptop...Stop consuming, then they stop mining & manufacturing!
The governments are insisting that this world is going to waste because I didn't recycle that plastic bottle but at the same time they allow billionaires to plan their own private space travels. And that's how serious they handle climate change.
We must begin to separate ideology from human action. Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism are just ideas, the problem is humans using it as an excuse to commit totalitarian acts for power and money. The solution is to recognize the real problem and prevent these human actions that are destroying ourselves and the planet. Try to see the world without ideology, strategize, organize, vote, and take action.
Capitalism is not responsible. Stop blaming capitalism for everything.
It's due to the lack of education and real-life experience, I'm afraid. The capitalism is infinitely better than the socialism in providing for literally every whim and in shaping those whims in us. The real reason behind the gnashing of teeth is our ingrained irresponsible consumption and bloated self-esteem that makes us shift responsibility.
Ridiculous headline. Not a capitalism problem. Stop trying to make capitalism the boogie man and look to your own consumption demands. Very telling that most of the comments here also agree. Stop trying to push this stupid narrative.
Oh lord, If corporations don't take the lead and provide us with sustainable options the average consumer has no other choice but to pollute! Look at toothbrushes for example. Why aren't replaceable heads the norm? They force us to pick a whole new stick that eventually goes into the ocean and pollutes our shores! Don't let me get started on fast fashion and the cosmetics industry which spends billions of dollars to prey on our Psyche and nudge us to buy more and more stuff we really don't need!
Load More Replies... The majority of this thread isn't memes. It's just expressing extreme dislike for capitalism and conservatives. I mean capitalism is flawed, but could be fixed. The media is overwhelmingly liberal
Oh my god. Just a generation of victim blaming. 99% of you made the other 1% rich by buying thier products. By demanding thier products. And yet take absolutely no responsibility. Nothing will ever get better with this mentality.
Really chaos&roses? Ur telling me that u eat beef twice a month, have tech that doesn't break apart every 3 years, eat fruit in season despite other options, have a minimal wardrobe, have reduced your plastic waste to near zero, use renewable energy to power your home and drive an electric vehicle? If so then bravo, but for the rest of us it's near possible if corporations don't get behind sustainability and the government doesn't nudge them.
Load More Replies... A reason why nobody takes all the enviromental warnings serious is that it's ALWAYS connected with some sort of socialism (in the political sense) or even communism. As long as those aren't seperated a majority won't accept either. Envirolism mostly is just a vehicle to introduce a political system rather than solving a serious problem
I mean, communism wasn't exactly great for the planet either... people are greedy so will cut corners
I get the environmental situation and I understand we need to take action but blaming a whole system is not the way, because if capitalism doesn’t work, socialism works even less, I won’t even start in comunism (I live in Cuba, I can tell) what are we gonna do? We need to fix the system, step by step, so is more sustainable for humankind and Earth, but blaming a system we actively take part as if it’s the roots of all evil is nonsense and will take us nowhere.
You do know that every criticism of capitalism isn't a push for communism or socialism, right?
Load More Replies... China is the worlds largest user of coal fired power plants in the would, the largest consumer plastics in manufacturing in the world, They are a Communist nation so..........
Robert, China is the world's largest producer of products that the world demands. Maybe if every country only built thier companies in thier country and not outsourced to China to make/build products, then pollution would be bad all over instead if just China. Maybe if American pharma companies and mobile phone companies produced thier products in America then China would have less coal fired factories polluting thier country. More than half of the producers in China are from offshore.
Load More Replies... Nope it's capitalism. 2 kids born in a middle income houehold of a development nation have a much higher carbon footprint than a family of 5 in say.. rural Africa.
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