axiological:

If every working-class person in the world decided this afternoon to install solar panels on their roofs and started biking instead of driving, the ice caps would still melt and the human race would still die off. It simply isn’t possible to end climate change while working within a system that sends all your products overseas in massive supertankers wrapped in unrecycled plastic that will be thrown in a landfill the moment it hits land – and practices like that aren’t going to go away because of your purchasing habits.

Nor are we gonna hit some magical point where using clean energy and reducing waste are suddenly the cheapest or most profitable option and so all the world’s big companies fall over each other to switch over. That has never been the case and never will be – the “free market” isn’t going to save us.

The fact of the matter is, this system needs to be torn down if our species is to survive. We don’t have time to delay the revolution anymore. Capitalism is extinction. 

There are strong indicators that we are already past a tipping point to out-of-control climate change and capitalism is only making it even worse. If we could somehow magically get all
the world’s big companies

to switch over the clear energy and reducing waste, it still wouldn’t be enough.

Capitalists gathering ever more wealth, privatising armies, cranking up national security at the expense of civil rights and militarizing borders aren’t ignoring climate change, they’re preparing for its bloody consequences.

Instead of preparing to collectively face and survive what’s ahead, they’re preparing violence to maintain a system where money buys the right to lifes necessities.