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Are they implying that socialism stops hurricanes?

Nah, we’re implying that socialism is the only way to adequately change society in such a way that our resources are spent preventing climate driven catastrophic once in a life time size storms from being the new normal. It’s also the best way to invest in infrastructure and institutions that will help all people in impacted areas no matter the negative financial impact, because using those resources to help people is just the right thing to do. Even if supply and demand makes a killing for people and non profits in disaster zones.

Socialism doesn’t stop hurricanes, obviously. It does however make preventing them from becoming stronger and stronger by the year more likely. It does make cleaning up after them a hell of a lot easier. Perhaps most importantly though it’s the best way to help the people who are devastated from their impact and help them move on. Unless you think insurance companies are just going to invest in people who failed to buy flood insurance, in which case, uh, you probably have never dealt with an insurance company.

Socialism doesn’t stop hurricanes and floods but capitalism certainly creates them, both in terms of climate change and in terms of creating the conditions in which a natural disaster can do the most damage. So yeah, any system that rejects capitalism, prevents that shit. 

A lot of ‘liberal’ movements are still implying that we can still ‘save’ the climate. I think we’re past that point. Climate goals and stopping polution are still good of course, but we have ruined the climate to such a degree that no matter what we do we’re in for a shitty century or two. We have fucked it up that bad. We had many decades to act before it was ‘too late’, it’s too late now. So everyone’s attitude needs to move from “we need to prevent climate change before it goes too far!” to “we need to not make climate change any worse but also we need to really really really think about how we’re going to deal with all the disasters that are most definitely coming.”. (We should have started thinking about that around the turn of the century actually, but better to start now than never.)

We’re living under governments that are happy to let the ‘undesirables’ drown (the poor, people of color, undocumented, disabled, prisoners etc), are happy to profit off our suffering when natural disasters hit and are happy to border up our countries so populations that face even more of the results of our fucking up the environment can not come here. Capitalism + the results of climate change will result in mass death. What are we gonna do about it?