log: 2026-05-07, climate change as class war

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+## 2026-05-07
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+### @{climate-change-class-war}
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+The professional classes who make up the bulk of the environmental movement like
+to think that they, as consumers, drive the economy. Producers can only follow
+demand. Therefore, it makes sense to model greenhouse emissions as linked to
+individual lifestyle choices: exactly what people explicitly say is the
+assumption behind 'carbon footprinting'. However, consumption is not in fact
+king. People can only consume what is produced, and thus, what is profitable to
+produce. But carbon footprinting ignores production. The villian of carbon
+footprinting is the suburbanite who drives a Humvee to work every day. But we
+ignore the industrial production decisions he makes at his work, the carbon
+consequences of which render his Humvee and oversized house small change. Thus,
+'carbon footprinting' obscures who is really responsible for climate change: the
+capitalist class.
+
 ## 2026-05-06
 
 ### @{uninhabitable-earth}