"Sadly, this is the reality of Climate Change."
The tone and subtext of resignation in the use of the word 'sadly' in this sentence, which I have read so frequently, terrifies me. I am furious and I chose to be furious because it reeks of inevitability and surrender, it carries the stench of comfortable, quiet desperation.
The English Way. The Liberal Way. "I'm all right, Jack."
"What about the children, and their children to come?"
"I won't be here, it's not something I worry about."
"What can I do, I'm just an ordinary person , doing ordinary things, I have no Power!"
Terrifying, infuriating.
It is NOT climate change.
It IS Climate Disruption.
The Fossil Fuel entities KNEW 70 years ago exactly what pouring CO2, Methane and other Carbon gases into the atmosphere would lead to.
They went ahead. They could have slowed down the pollution, they could have used their political powers to invest into cleaner energy, into policies that reduce pollution, environmental degradation, warfare and poverty globally. They chose not to do that.
They knew.
They even tricked us into taking teeny weeny actions, having made us feel guilty about our consumption, actions that had zero overall impact, just to con us, to give us a false sense of security, to mine our hope for further exploitation. They chose to do this to us.
They knew.
Even still we are talking about teeny weeny things we can do, that have no meaningful impact and we evade the action required - solidarity, general strikes, the political disarming of wealth-as-power, the shift of power from Wealth to the people using the power of the legislature and the state to hold these cruel, greedy, venal monstrous institutionas and people accountable for all the harms they have caused, are causing in order, to prevent further harm, to render assistance to everyone made vulnerable by their cruelty.
I am not sad.
They CHOSE disruption.
They chose Genocide in Palestine.
They chose chaos and murder in Congo.
They chose civil war across Sudan.
They chose Epstein and cover ups.
They chose Colonialism.
Wealth-as-Power connects all the dots.
Every time Wealth made those choices, knowing full well the harms that were to be caused and they went ahead.
'Sadly' is not the word I would use here.
Horrifically, cruelly, intentionally this is the reality of Climate Disruption, Warfare, Sexual Violence, Racism and Misogyny.
I am furious.
The English Wealth-as-Power Team has taken one player off, selected a substitute.
Team Wealth plays on, Team People seem unable to defend from repeated own goals, hope is all they have in their training sessions.
Where is the determination to strike?
Where are the strikers?
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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