The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to "spiral out of control" as increased demand for water and the intensifying impacts of the climate crisis put huge pressure on water resources, a UN report has warned.
Yeah the “over-consumption” bit rubs me a bit wrong as it generally provides “neutral framing” for an otherwise EXCLUSIVELY greedy massive capitalist-driven issue. Families aren’t “overconsuming” drinking water or taking too long a shower, nor are our toilets not being a low-volume flushing devices the primary cause of our issues.
Instead things like like Nestle claiming aquifers for themselves, companies fracking using all available ground water in their proprietary chemical mixes and then dumping the waste water into surface pools that not only are deadly, flammable, and completely impossible to separate from water except via high-energy-cost processes like distillation… but that also slowly seep down into the ground water for places that then become permanent wastelands where clean water is no longer available in the ground.
The framing here is always like the fucking paper straws :
“Littering is something we all have to combat” attempts to distract from the fact that the overwhelming majority of pollution comes from a handful of multi-billion dollar companies who dump garbage everywhere with little to no consequences.
“Americans drive big cars too much.” Mother-fucker, we don’t have bullet trains or even safe bridges in this country. The problem is that our government is bought and paid for by private industries that basically write the legislation that controls how public transit never becomes viable. Me driving a 2005 vehicle that happens to the be the old SUV I could afford from a friend doesn’t make me someone anyone should spend any energy blaming. The fact that I can’t afford a new car while countries like Norway pass massive subsidies for buying a new electric car isn’t even the thing people should be angry about. It’s that countries like Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Japan, and China all have massive multi-billion-dollar high-speed trains operated by well-paid, well-trained, adequately staffed teams of subsidized workers who make cars seem stupid by comparison.
How about you stop saying “overconsumption” and instead tell the truth and say "a handful of massive multi-conglomerate companies are completely decimating all clean drinking water sources and their CEOs should be put in prison, have their personal and companies’ assets liquidated and re-declared public goods.”
I’d call it corporate gaslighting, passing the blame onto consumers to shield themselves from any accountability that could harm their bottom line. Similar to how they’ve roped a generation into believing the rhetoric of the consumer’s “carbon footprint” to shift the responsibility of climate action and deflect attention away from the world’s major polluters; multi-conglomerate companies.
That wasn’t corporations, that was a grassroots effort spearheaded by the left and famous climate proponents. Unless you’re insinuating Al Gore and Bill Nye the Science Guy were being bribed by big business the whole time.
Corporate media sanitizes raw information for the masses to redirect the public’s collective anger and diffuse the otherwise clear responsibility that is nearly always a direct result of the oligarchs’ own actions driven purely by abject unchecked greed.
Individual journalists (who usually don’t get paid millions like the pundits who help “manufacture consent” from the public) usually barely can make ends meet are the ones who do the incredibly hard, thankless, and sometimes even dangerous job of actually attempting to inform the public through an unfiltered lens are few and far between.
In fact, even a large number of the supposed “independent” ones are astroturfed and just pretending to be genuine… but are in fact financed by dark money from groups propped up by billionaire libertarian shitheads like the Kochs in an attempt to muddy the waters and further disingenuously reframe issues by scapegoating minorities and the marginalized for problems - again - caused almost exclusively by the absurdly rich.
Yeah the “over-consumption” bit rubs me a bit wrong as it generally provides “neutral framing” for an otherwise EXCLUSIVELY greedy massive capitalist-driven issue. Families aren’t “overconsuming” drinking water or taking too long a shower, nor are our toilets not being a low-volume flushing devices the primary cause of our issues.
Instead things like like Nestle claiming aquifers for themselves, companies fracking using all available ground water in their proprietary chemical mixes and then dumping the waste water into surface pools that not only are deadly, flammable, and completely impossible to separate from water except via high-energy-cost processes like distillation… but that also slowly seep down into the ground water for places that then become permanent wastelands where clean water is no longer available in the ground.
The framing here is always like the fucking paper straws :
How about you stop saying “overconsumption” and instead tell the truth and say "a handful of massive multi-conglomerate companies are completely decimating all clean drinking water sources and their CEOs should be put in prison, have their personal and companies’ assets liquidated and re-declared public goods.”
I’d call it corporate gaslighting, passing the blame onto consumers to shield themselves from any accountability that could harm their bottom line. Similar to how they’ve roped a generation into believing the rhetoric of the consumer’s “carbon footprint” to shift the responsibility of climate action and deflect attention away from the world’s major polluters; multi-conglomerate companies.
That wasn’t corporations, that was a grassroots effort spearheaded by the left and famous climate proponents. Unless you’re insinuating Al Gore and Bill Nye the Science Guy were being bribed by big business the whole time.
Everything you say is spot! We definitely need to bring guillotine out for fucking Nestlé.
https://lemmy.world/c/fucknestle
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The mass media IS the corporations fucking shit up. Most of the time it’s the same couple of people or their friends at the top.
The media used to be complicit but now they’re fully part of it.
Corporate media sanitizes raw information for the masses to redirect the public’s collective anger and diffuse the otherwise clear responsibility that is nearly always a direct result of the oligarchs’ own actions driven purely by abject unchecked greed.
Individual journalists (who usually don’t get paid millions like the pundits who help “manufacture consent” from the public) usually barely can make ends meet are the ones who do the incredibly hard, thankless, and sometimes even dangerous job of actually attempting to inform the public through an unfiltered lens are few and far between.
In fact, even a large number of the supposed “independent” ones are astroturfed and just pretending to be genuine… but are in fact financed by dark money from groups propped up by billionaire libertarian shitheads like the Kochs in an attempt to muddy the waters and further disingenuously reframe issues by scapegoating minorities and the marginalized for problems - again - caused almost exclusively by the absurdly rich.
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I like how Amsterdam ended up in your list of countries. It clarifies the mindset of a lot of Amsterdammers.
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