We are surrounded by failure.
The climate mov't should be having a scathing self-examination about whether the strategic assumptions, organizational cultures and ideological assertions guiding climate activism work — or are part of the problem.
I see 0% chance that will happen.
The climate mov't should be having a scathing self-examination about whether the strategic assumptions, organizational cultures and ideological assertions guiding climate activism work — or are part of the problem.
I see 0% chance that will happen.
We'll see how many people have the courage to even retweet this idea.
I'm hearing/seeing/reading so many urgent demands that the climate movement be exactly what it's always been, but more so!
It's like the old generals saying, after the Somme—after a million dead—that all we need is the right *kind* of frontal assault, with the proper spirit...
It's like the old generals saying, after the Somme—after a million dead—that all we need is the right *kind* of frontal assault, with the proper spirit...
The main difference being that these failures will end up killing many times that many people, and ruining the lives of an order of magnitude more people than that...
Botching the Great War was child's play next to fucking up on the planetary crisis.
Botching the Great War was child's play next to fucking up on the planetary crisis.
A movement that defines its goals only by what it finds unsustainable or unjust, and seeks to end—much less by a set of agreeable proposals for reducing harm if we fail—is incapable of meeting a civilization-altering discontinuity.
It can't even form a strategy for doing so.
It can't even form a strategy for doing so.
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