Thread by @MsKellyMHayes

Something I'm thinking about today: I am worried about whose leadership people will attach themselves to as the reality of the climate crisis sinks in. There are no good answers. No easy ways out. But some ppl will offer simple solutions to complex problems & ppl will want that.

I wince a little when people say that the U.S. government has no plan for millions of climate refugees, because they do. It's to slam the gates shut and let them die. Any other interpretation of what's gone on, policy and rhetoric wise, is a little naive.

While you might hope that we'd take to the streets en masse as such inhumanity played out, we're not on track to do so. When it comes to our treatment of immigrants, new horrors hit the news everyday & the only ppl taking action are organizers who've been on the issue for yrs.

What happens as widespread catastrophe and scarcity set in, here in the states? Do you think we'll march en masse to open up the border and offer shelter and food to climate refugees? And what political philosophies will folks embrace as the world falls down? It's terrifying.

The global ascent of fascism, like climate change itself, is a moral reckoning for the human race. Who do we want to be at the end of the world? What will we become as things fall apart? Who's leadership will we follow and what manner of decency will we fight for?

These are decisions we are making now, whether we know it or not.

This shit keeps me up at night.

But it's not just the right we have to be concerned about. Their will be people speaking the language of the left offering the kind of simple answers people want to hear, and they will also be dangerous. Most people have no idea how far gone things are.

Even if we successfully take measures to delay the end of life as we know it (and we are not on that track), chaos is coming, and dangerous charlatans of all stripes are already waiting in the wings, ready to shepherd desperate ppl. Some of them will even believe their own hype.

We need a politics for the ultimate showdown: a battle for life as we know it, a battle for decency as we understand it, and a war against fascism AND against our own worst self-preserving impulses amid environmental collapse. That's where we are, folks.

Let's craft our politics accordingly. And let's be wary. Because there are monsters stirring.