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Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves
Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.
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Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.
Or perhaps the point is that some fraction of that seventy are like, near enough to actual slaves, and that the brutality of colonialism never really went away; it's just shifted form to something vastly more insidious.
It's not just energy consumption, it's the goods the corporations provide to us.
If you, a well-off westerner, find offense in the suggestion that you're benefiting from the subjugation of many others, then perhaps I can interest you in a subscription to one of Rupert Murdoch's 'news'papers
Kimmo
I did notice that, and it made me think of the difference between say, Christian and Christianist... Haven't seen driveist before. (Shouldn't that be the spelling?)
And it put me in mind of that driver/rider distinction which struck me about ten years ago. Seemed so damn obvious once I'd thought of it - I was immediately taken with the political dimension of what a rhetorical shafting and con-job that cyclists have copped for a century, being on the wrong side of that coin; it's enough to provoke militant fury. Particularly in the light of increasing sustainability pressures... Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves, but if you drive rather than ride most of your way, it has to be fewer than that.
What I can't understand is that as far as I've seen, nobody else seems to have noticed it and made an issue out of the misnomer.