Thread by @SteB777

I made this comment in response to @ZackPolanski comment, about being attacked by the right. I will place it as a free standing thread. It is about why an agenda of radical change, is the only realistic way forward, and why.
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“There are now no non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.”
@KevinClimate

2/bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/04/18/no-…

What the right cannot get through their thick heads, is that radical change is coming whether you like it or not. The climate and ecological crisis is going to radically alter our societies, ESPECIALLY, if we try to carry on with business as usual BaU.
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Trying to carry on with BaU, what the right are about, will result in the most unpleasant radical change to our societies. Ironically, the radical change, that will be the least unpleasant for us, is making radical change now, rather than having it forced upon us.
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The right, and indeed a large proportion of the left, wrongly think we can carry on with BaU, without the unpleasant consequences, by denying the reality of our current situation.
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The reality of our current situation, is that we should have started making radical changes to our system, over 25 years ago. This would have allowed these changes, to be less painful. But we've left it so late, that only the most radical action, will prevent serious impacts.
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The longer we leave it, the more drastic the radical changes will have to be, to avert the catastrophic collapse of our civilization. I'm sorry to be a party pooper, but this is just how things are.

7/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Pretending that the climate and ecological crisis is not real, or not that serious, is what has got us into this mess. If we ramp up the denial, and procrastinate more, it will only make it even worse.
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None of what I say is ideological i.e. demanding change for the sake of ideology. It is about physical and ecological reality. Where we are breaching all the Earth's main planetary boundaries, and pretending it's not happening.
9/stockholmresilience.org/research/plane…

None of those dismissing the dangers as not real, have any expertise in the dangers they are dismissing. This includes techno-optimist climate scientists, who only have expertise in climate science, and not expertise in ecology, and joined up thinking.
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The belief that we can fix this situation, with techno-fixes, without major changes to our system, is simply based on ignorance and denial of reality. I have been through this scores of times with these people.
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None of these techno-optimists have any fix for the rapidly deteriorating biodiversity crisis, which can't be fixed with their simplistic techno-fixes, and they just spit their dummy out, when I bring it up.

12/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The biodiversity crisis is just as big an existential threat to our civilization as the climate crisis. It's not me saying this. It was the conclusion of the biggest scientific examination of our biodiversity, ever carried out.

13/theguardian.com/environment/20…

I'm sorry to keep bringing this up. There has been no attempt to address or acknowledge these dire crises. They have NOT gone away, they have got worse. Just turning a blind eye to them, won't make them go away.
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Only radical change will prevent eventual collapse. The most important single action, is to shift from a highly competitive system, to a far more cooperative system, which requires equity, reducing the gap, between rich and poor. That is not communist, it's about survival.
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Cooperation is important because when it gets much worse, if people are working together, for the good of humanity, rather than competitively grabbing as much as they can for themselves, that gives us the best chance of avoiding collapse.
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I'm well aware this may seem too radical for some. But it's not ideological, or speculation. Our leadership has created this radical reality, with their reckless pursuit of BaU. We have to deal with this reality, or our civilization, WILL collapse.

17/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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