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obtk wrote

New to the movement and I'm curious how removing a centralized power that can be used to monitor climate change issues being removed would stop climate change. It seems to me that the removal of a state would remove the possibility to monitor and enforce these issues. Why not advocate for a green state instead of no state at all?

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

Because states are always for sale to the highest bidder whether they present themselves as communist or capitalist, as the USSR proved. With anarchism, instead of asking a state to protect your 'rights', the community protects itself. Someone is polluting? Get everyone together, march to their front door, drag them out and make them answer for their crimes. Instead, states have police forces that defend these polluters from the people.

Furthermore, under anarchism polluting would make no sense because there are no bosses, the workers have the power, and they decide production matters. Everything they do in their community will affect them personally, so they're not likely to pollute their own community.

Under anarchism, there is no outsourcing your waste. If you create toxic waste, it's going to stay in your community instead of being shipped off to India like capitalism does.

The people living and working in the community don't want to poison themselves. Capitalist bosses living on the other site of the country, on the other hand, have no qualms about giving workers cancer.

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