It takes almost no effort to submit to a violent hierarchy, to get by. That said the distress of living under a violent hierarchy generates chronic stressors that make life still very difficult indeed, with reasonable cause of anxiety, sadness, despair all of which require great effort to manage.
It takes immense effort to stand up to a violent hierarchy, in order to thrive well.
That effort is made less of a burden when the majority of the population take it on as their task. This is a numbers game, We do have the numbers.
We need to de-numb ourselves, and that will require we care more for each other, even for strangers in our midst.
The Fossil Fuel Industry and their allies understand that, given that they knew about Climate Disruption some 70 years ago, and kept quiet about it in order to continue to extract wealth and build their political power, that they are culpable for that action, for not avoiding known avoidable harms.
Being culpable they are also liable, criminally and in civil courts, for indictments and reparations.
The only force that could hold them accountable is a democratically elected legislature that would uphold the law, institute regulation, and hold them accountable.
They therefore have embarked on a campaign to disrupt democratic governance across all democracies, to prevent any government from holding them accountable.
They also understand that if the vast majority of ordinary people understood this in these clear, evident based terms, that they would indeed elect legislators to hold the fossil fuels industry accountable(and others) accountable for the avoidable harms they have caused and are causing, as crucial step in preventing further abuse of Power.
Hence the emotive nature of certain narratives and the curation of scapegoating bigotry to sow fear, hatred, reactionary dynamics and thus to divide the populations.
Let me put it another way…
A problem that is correctly understood is half way towards being solved.
The Problem - Fossil Fuel Industry knew it would cause Climate Disruption 70 years ago, and ignored the science in order to extract more wealth and build more political power.
Once ordinary people understood this they started to demand accountability.
The only force that can hold the fossil fuel industry accountable are democratic Governments elected by citizens to pass legislation to uphold the Law, and to regulate the Fossil Fuel Industry and hold it accountable for known avoidable harms not avoided. Criminal and Civil litigation being the mechanism to do this.
The Fossil Fuel Industry understands this problem accurately.
The Solution : Disrupt every existing democracy so that no democratic government anywhere can hold the Fossil Fuel Industry accountable.
That strategy is being pursued, and it hurts us all.
Here's the solution to that problem: We ordinary people have the numbers and when we stand together in political and socio-economic and cultural solidarity to elect decent, honest evidence grounded legislators to our legislatures, we can support them as they use the powers of the State, the Courts etc to hold the fossil fuel Industry to account for the known avoidable harms they refused to avoid.
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