Ok, this is going to be a very depressing post.
I know it really sucks, but we probably gotta stop talking about ‘preventing climate change’ as if we can still avoid a massive catastrophe. All we can do is limit the impact of it by now. We’ve fought to ‘prevent’ this for decades, but that’s a battle we lost. (And no, not just because this summer is hot. All the science is screaming that massive climate change is really happening)
We need to keep talking about CO2 reduction as something that limits the extend of the catastrophe, but we need a significant shift of focus. As activists, our conversations about climate justice need to focus way more on who is going to be hurt most by the things that are now inevitable. (& They should have been focused more on that years ago to be honest, but the mostly non-western, mostly people of color talking about it weren’t acknowledged.)
When it comes to climate justice, neocolonialism and borders need to be the two points at the top of our agenda.
We need to talk about neocolonialism because as parts of the world become significantly less inhabitable and natural disasters become more common, companies will be bottling the last drops of drinking water for profit and charging a fortune for life vests made at the sweatshop that is now under water.
We need to talk about borders because as parts of the world become significantly less inhabitable, the EU-US-AUS-CAN clusterfuck is putting higher fences and more weapons on its borders, building camps and preparing watch towers ready to shoot refugees, all to make sure that people effected by climate change stay in the country where they are and die there. To make sure that the guilty have to carry none of the burden of the mess they created.
You think the cruelty of companies and immigrant detention is bad now?
Give it 10 or 20 years and a few more natural disasters and you’ll see
real horrors. And the sham we call ‘democracy’ in it’s current form is probably going to let them because the people of
the EU-US-AUS-CAN clusterfuck
will have their own smaller disasters to deal with and will convince themselves that now is the time to worry only about themselves.
I know it’s scary. I’m scared too.
If someone has some uplifting words and ideas right now, I’d really love to hear them. I’m serious, I really would. But I can’t find comfort in denial.
The next climate deal just isn’t going to save us anymore.
Capitalism, borders and the states that maintain them need to go and we
are running out of time.
And our activism should reflect that reality.
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