The environmental scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of the climate crisis, on being informed and engaged without succumbing to despair
At this point, I assume that we need to either grab pitchforks or just accept that we’re doomed. It is historically and materially unjustifiable to think that voting once every 4 years for people who, no matter what they say about environmentalism, will continue to support capitalism and the military industrial complex at the cost of the of the planet will somehow save us. The system is set up to perpetuate itself. It will not allow for it to be peacefully dismantled.
That said I’m pretty pessimistic about that actually succeeding, what with all the military power, surveillance tech, etc. So unless shit starts changing fast, I’m just gonna go with we’re doomed.
At this point, I assume that we need to either grab pitchforks or just accept that we’re doomed. It is historically and materially unjustifiable to think that voting once every 4 years for people who, no matter what they say about environmentalism, will continue to support capitalism and the military industrial complex at the cost of the of the planet will somehow save us. The system is set up to perpetuate itself. It will not allow for it to be peacefully dismantled.
That said I’m pretty pessimistic about that actually succeeding, what with all the military power, surveillance tech, etc. So unless shit starts changing fast, I’m just gonna go with we’re doomed.