Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions

"#Capitalism has no future on this planet. We will need a far-reaching revolution to address this crisis."

#CrimeThinc, May 8, 2024

"The mainstream climate movement begins from a premise that guarantees failure. Not just failure. Catastrophe. And the more effective it is, the more harm it will cause.

Let’s explore why.

#ClimateReductionism

"When people think of environmentalism these days, they are likely to picture civil disobedience in the streets, media activism, enthusiastic lobbying, and conferences aiming to set global goals for carbon emissions—all under the leadership of non-governmental organizations, academics, and progressive politicians. Ecological struggle, however, has always also included anti-capitalist and anti-colonial currents, and these currents have been getting stronger, more dynamic, and better connected over the past couple decades.

T"hat growth, however, has not been without setbacks, often caused by intense targeted repression that leaves movements exhausted and traumatized, like the #GreenScare that began in 2005 and the repression of #StandingRock and other #Indigenous-led #AntiPipeline movements a decade later.

"Systematically, at precisely the moments when radical currents are licking their wounds, the predominantly white, middle-class vision of environmentalism takes the stage and pushes the entire conversation in reformist directions.

"The actual crisis we are facing is a complex ecological crisis, in which police killings, repressive laws, ongoing histories of #colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy, #HabitatLoss,#LandGrabs, food cultures, human health, #urbanism, borders, and wars are all entangled. The leadership of the environmental movement has made the strategic decision to reduce all of this to a question of climate—the climate crisis—and to recenter the state as the protagonist, as our potential savior. This means centering the #ParisAgreement and the #COP summits as the solution to the problem, and using performative #activism and #CivilDisobedience to demand policy shifts and investment in support of green energy."

Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2024/05/08/ahead-of-another-summer-of-climate-disasters-lets-talk-about-real-solutions
#ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #CapitalismMustDie #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #ClimateJustice

#FBI #cointelpro #environmentalism #EarthFirst #DirectAction #ALF #ELF #GreenScare #Ecosocialism

Watch "How The FBI Killed Environmentalism" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Zfki76bUza4?si=GTygpYo2UnTzzJxr
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The extent of the state opposition to change makes radical direct action mandatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfki76bUza4

#AnimalLiberation #Environmentalism #Veganism #GreenScare #ClimateChange

Green Scared?

Some Lessons from the #FBI Crackdown on #EcoActivists

2023, via @CrimethInc

"For years, the FBI targeted ecological #activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

"At the end of 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements—known as the #GreenScare—with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This offensive, which they dubbed Operation Backfire, was intended to obtain convictions for many of the unsolved #EarthLiberationFront arsons of the preceding ten years—but more so, to have a chilling effect on all ecological #DirectAction.

"In this analysis, originally published in Rolling Thunder in 2008, we review everything we can learn from the Operation Backfire cases, with the intention of passing on the lessons for the next generation of #environmental activists.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared

#ClimateActivists #Censorship #Fascism #ELF #EarthFirst #Siskiyou #ClimateActivists #WaterProtectors #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent