We are all extremists
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2021-06-12

We live in a world of extremes. If your methods for changing things aren’t “extreme”, maybe you’re a different kind of extremist. “Extremism” is another propaganda word it’s time to unlearn.

Links:

The US is at war all over the world: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3ywd5/white-house-acknowledges-the-us-is-at-war-in-seven-countries

Incarceration rates by country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country 

Numbers detained by ICE: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/reports/Communities%20Not%20Cages-A%20Just%20Transition%20from%20Immigration%20Detention%20Economies_DWN%202021.pdf

Prison slavery: https://www.newsweek.com/prison-slavery-who-benefits-cheap-inmate-labor-1093729 

Children have to defend themselves in immigration court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztvPsJmIcU

There are a billion security cameras: https://www.inverse.com/article/61552-united-states-china-surveillance-cameras

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/one-billion-surveillance-cameras-will-be-watching-globally-in-2021.html 

We’re still burning fossil fuels: https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

We’re still consuming plastic: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

Species are going extinct: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/12/9/20993619/biodiversity-crisis-extinction

Rainforests are getting logged: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/rainforest-deforestation-global-charts-football-pitch/ 

Billionaires: https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

World Bank poverty figures: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity 

Inflation in rent: https://www.businessinsider.com/rent-inflation-single-family-homes-housing-corelogic-real-estate-prices-2021-5?op=1

Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education: https://ca1lib.org/book/3622260/731364 

The collapse is coming: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/climate-scientists-world-we-have-only-20-years-theres-no-turning-back

https://www.livescience.com/20778-earth-headed-environmental-collapse.html

A transcript of this video is available at https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/we-are-all-extremists/