None of the @IPCC_CH geo-social scenarios captures how bad things are... the science is clear, governments still in the grip of a fossil-finance elite that's fragmenting the global system 1/ newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
2/ Reality is heading towards a mix of SSP3-4-&-5 ... unless we force a radical change ... but with what institutions/what allies? newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
3/ Because @johnmcdonnellMP committed to something close to what's needed in 2019, Labour activists got a taste of what's coming to all politicians if they commit to urgent mitigation: fear and incomprehension newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
4/ the answers?
Climate Bolshevism? With what soviets (and War Communism failed)? ❌
Left survivalism /adaptation? ❌
Revolutionary reformism - using existing parties and institutions = only strategy that fits timescale ✅ newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
Climate Bolshevism? With what soviets (and War Communism failed)? ❌
Left survivalism /adaptation? ❌
Revolutionary reformism - using existing parties and institutions = only strategy that fits timescale ✅ newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
5/ The right will converge on tech hubris (aka developed world adaptation + razor wire); the far right's entire philosophical viewpoint leads them to the eco-fascist path, as Malm/Zetkin point out versobooks.com/books/3812-whi…
6/ ... so Labour/Green/PC/SNP have to persuade and mobilise. Johnson/Sharma are in the end, beyond all personal indifference, beholden to Tory voters. The progressive majority will deliver zero carbon, not them newstatesman.com/politics/envir…
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