Look Up!

-


Just the two hottest days on Earth in over 100,000 years this week that's all, as the globe heats up and becomes unlivable. 

Our sauntering collective “path to zero emissions by 2050” is nonsense and harmful. So too is simply escaping to remote communes, planting trees, growing food in our backyards, or any other matter of escapism and "personal responsibility" as any kind of complete solution to this existential threat. We can't live in a fantasy, we need to start taking environmental sustainability seriously.

Society needs Industrial level change at this critical point - hard caps on emissions, with binding pass/fail laws that are enforceable and severely punishable.

To do this we need to target systemic change at the political structure of human decision making itself; gutting money from politics to fundamentally delink Capitalist control over society, to be able to accrue necessary political power, in order to pass Sustainability laws as soon as possible.

We have a couple decades optimistically, probably less, before irreversible ecological tipping points. We’re already seeing extreme breakdown in real time, synergistically unfolding around us, non linearly, ahead of schedule, breaking all predictive models, as we steadily decline toward imminent destruction of organized human life and the death of countless life forms on Earth.

Bit of a buzz kill... Not exactly “good vibes”…

But maybe the destruction of the planet isn’t supposed to be fun….

Maybe, it’s suppose to be terrifying… and upsetting… and maybe we’re suppose to stay up all night, every night, freaked out for the future of human society, organizing in an attempt to gain some glimmer of control over our systems from 1% collateral suicide of humanity, to try to bring us on course Sustainably.

So will we placate, and terminate? Resign ourselves as hopeless victims; once intrepid, adaptable humans? Selfishly, lazily, and cowardly betraying hundreds and hundreds of years of material, scientific, and social progress that’s come before to get us to this point?? As we share stupid animal videos and silly stunts on social media, and like and subscribe our way to our own extinction??

Or will we respond, and sacrifice our human lives to the extent we can, to try to save civilization, so that many more human generations may have the chance to go on, and exceed our present scientific and creative horizons many times over, in new and exciting, beautifully exuberant ways we never imagined possible.

There is no such thing as “too late”... just worse, and worse, and worse. We have every opportunity in the world to make things right. We must reach. 

🌎

Popular posts from this blog

Gaza: A Week In Genocide

-
Image
Israel is invading Rafah, the last remaining city in Gaza where over 100,000 have been ordered to flee… many being displaced for the 5th/6th time now. Over 2 million in Gaza have been utterly displaced. There is no where left to go. Gaza has been wiped off the map. The border crossing from Egypt to Rafa where some fraction of critical aid/supplies were able to get through, was taken over and shut down by Israeli forces earlier this week on Sunday. 7 days later and still no aid, and no fuel has come through to power Rafah's medical systems, leaving hundreds of injured and sick people for dead. This, in addition to the already many thousands with non-combat related medical needs like heart problems, cancers, and pregnancies. (Weaponized) Famine sets in across Gaza, as innocent Palestinian civilians begin STARVING TO DEATH. There is no food, no water, no fuel, no electricity; all essential infrastructure has been destroyed; people are living on top of one another; and with rising temp
Read more

Commodification of Value

-
Image
Everything has been commodified under Market Society, devaluing all we hold dear. People have become denatured because we don’t “value” anything. Everything is bought and paid for, nothing is inherently sacred or important; we are losing all true, tangible value. For millennia labor has been intimately linked to one's reward/survival, in effect "commodifying" ourselves and our labor for economic resources. As market capitalism has evolved over the past century, with the complete privatization and financialization of society, there exists today virtually zero constraints on what we'll make into sellable, marketable product in the pursuit of profit and survival in the system—  the planet's  natural resources...   our healthcare and medicine... our educational institutions...   our creative ingenuity  in the form of copyright protection and patents... our activism as mere occupational paths... the spreading of ideas and information in and of itself in the form of &qu
Read more

Women's History Month

-
Image
March is Women's History month. It's a reminder that fundamental changes can and HAVE been made to society throughout history, when we come together and organize to do so. Our systems are not immutable laws of the cosmos, they are made by us, and we can unmake them, reshape them. Activists like to say that changing the system isn’t possible, that attempting change within a broken system is futile… but what happens after successful protests, LAW gets made...and that is the enduring part. Conversely, progress is by no means “inevitable”, it must be fought for. And achievements gained are always susceptible to erosion without our active engagement, as demonstrated by recent undoings of reproductive rights in the US. Radical change begins and ends with “talking” and the exchange of ideas… another action commonly dismissed as futile and “doing nothing”. But, words are powerful, they are the very means to "meaning", they give shape to ideas, which come to shape the world w
Read more