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'f*ck Earth Day': Let This Year's Be The Last

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f*ck Earth Day. Not the first one, forty-four years ago, the one of sepia-hued nostalgia, but everything the day has since come to be: the darkest, cruelest, most brutally self-satirizing spectacle of the year.

f*ck it. Let it end here.

End the dishonesty, the deception. Stop lying to yourselves, and to your children. Stop pretending that the crisis can be ??solved, ? that the planet can be ??saved, ? that business more-or-less as usual ??what progressives and environmentalists have been doing for forty-odd years and more ??is morally or intellectually tenable. Let go of the pretense that ??environmentalism ? as we know it ??virtuous green consumerism, affluent low-carbon localism, head-in-the-sand conservationism, feel-good greenwashed capitalism ??comes anywhere near the radical response our situation requires.
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