The State is not a viable instrument for protecting the planet.
Direct action, anti-state, and anti-colonial struggles have been doing the real work.
The State has just given us broken promises and repression.
Direct action, anti-state, and anti-colonial struggles have been doing the real work.
The State has just given us broken promises and repression.
Palm oil plantations blocked in Borneo. Pipelines stopped in North America. An airport cancelled in France. Coal mining slowed in Germany. Drag net fishing sabotaged in the Adriatic. Urban gardening and food sovereignty built up in racist food deserts from Durban to Atlanta.
Indigenous land recovered, restored, and reforested, and food sovereignty achieved in territory nominally occupied by the Brazilian, Chilean, and Venezuelan states. Forest gardens protected from greenwashed nature preserves and monocrop commercial forests in India.
These are the real struggles. Bureaucrats, academics, politicians, and professional activists not talking about and supporting these struggles are just trying to stay in power or use the crisis to climb the ladder.
(Can you tell I'm really anxious for my next book to be out? It's in copy editing with @PlutoPress and it's all about these struggles. Plus a lot of criticisms of the mainstream solutions, the racism of the "anthropocene" and "climate crisis" frameworks, etc.)
(And all the author proceeds are going to a couple of the movements that participated with interviews and advice. As long as I have a crowbar, I don't need to pay rent, so...)
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