"ignore the genocide; killing Africans is good for the environment!" new ecofascism just dropped
heckin YIKES
The headline is poor and you always have to be careful with The Atlantic, but the article seems reasonable enough.
![In 1960, the colonial Belgians were ousted from power in the Congo, and in the decades since, the rainforest has been subject to nearly every variety of political instability. That the region’s national borders were drawn by and for imperial powers has made tensions worse, as has continued meddling by quasi-colonial outsiders. During the Cold War, a coup backed by the United States assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of independent Congo. A brutal dictator, then named Joseph Mobutu, eventually seized power. Even by local standards, Mobutu’s regime was extraordinarily corrupt. He embezzled his way to an enormous personal fortune, depleting the state’s strength.
When the Hutu perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide sought refuge in the eastern rainforest during the late 1990s, the region ignited into the First Congo War. It lasted only six months but set the stage for the Second Congo War [out of alt-text space]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:yerhul3hyaki4jyahbcfavk4/bafkreif6wsm3adeoyyq3xqli3j2mntcko4yt6cefqjgdypyqilrsrfbs2e@jpeg)
Someone read that blurb about Atilla and climate change and decided to be real fucking weird.
White dude, looking at a charred husk of an African landscape with countless mutilated bodies: "welp, at least the effects of global warming are mitigated for a negligible amount of time"
looking forward to the follow-up story about what US cities we should exterminate for the good of the climate
Holy shit.
Oh my god, this is so evil.
Umm... well.. wow.. Look, even if this was scientifically proven.. It probably doesn't need to be said. Lock it away in your "Interesting Facts Lockbox" I'm sure genocide also helps with food shortages, but let's not try to use that to get more ad revenue. 24 hour news is a plague of stupidity
Bill Gates vibes. Seem like this is the long term plan for the liberal wing of the bourgeoisie as opposed to the fantasy land of space mining. Horrifying.