• Isoprenoid
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    3 months ago

    “No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.” - John Ruskin

    We are part of the whole.

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      3 months ago

      Unless it’s something happening now that people can blame on me, then it’s different

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      3 months ago

      Okay, but “that is entirely your fault, grandma” generates a lot more discussion than “yeah, but you were a participant in a system along with billions of others which hid its externalities until it was too late to do anything about them”