Claim:

Daggot says “Similarly, the ‘Planet Politics Manifesto’ reminds us that ‘the planet is telling us that there are limits to human freedom; there are freedoms and political choices we can no longer have”. This is saying that the earth can only handle so much that we are doing to it. For example, the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, or the amount of garbage in the oceans, or even the amount of usable fresh water left for the world. The earth has a limit and once it hits that limit bad things will happen and it’s all because of anthropogenic factors. She claims this because humans just don’t want to stop and she is saying we have to stop, this hints that it is a very serious matter and that it is a bad thing. But further in her writing she states something that contradicts her earlier claim, “After all, while industri- alisation wreaks planetary destruction, its spread was coterminous with humanist victo- ries like the abolition of slavery, increased literacy rates, gender equality and poverty reduction.” This here sounds like she is saying industrialization was beneficial and it sounded like there were no serious negatives from this age of industrial revolution. This here gives humans more reasons to want to keep going down the “destructive” path and do more damage to the earth, both knowingly and unknowingly. This contradicts her claim of saying there is a limit to what humans should be doing but here she gives motive to why people keep going.

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