In the years to come police brutality and surveillance and the militarization of our borders will only get worse. This is not a matter of who gets elected. This is what states do when they see ‘law & order’ threatened. This is no great conspiracy, this is just how states are designed to work.
As our climate spirals further out of control there will be more floods, more droughts, more famine, more wars for what resources remain. Countries in the worst effected areas will destabilize, countries in the least effected areas will put more guns and fences on their borders and on their streets to make sure that the suffering they have created does not reach them.
If we are white, have a passport in the northern hemisphere and are not too poor or to queer, we may be given the choice of quiet survival under the protection of a police state while mass murder plays out just beyond our view. We’ll lose most of our freedoms and all of our humanity but we’ll be safe.
If we are poor, if we are queer, if we are people of color, if we do not have a passport in the northern hemisphere, we have only one option: resist.
