HeavenlyPossumAug 10, 2023

I was thinking to myself, “when will the effects of climate change get so bad that they provoke revolution” but then it occurred to me: they already did. Just in the wrong direction.

Syrians fled a civil war driven by the worst drought in a thousand years and Europe responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Central Americans fled rising temperatures that are killing agricultural workers and the U.S. responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Russia just happens to be in a war for control of some of the world’s best farmland.

Sudan is in the middle of a civil war and Niger just had its umpteenth coup.

Reactionaries are *already* at war with us over climate change. It’s only going to get worse as the world gets hotter.

Show threadAlex the Artistic Autist
@HeavenlyPossum yep. It's all gift to the fascists and tyrants. It's why climate denial comes so hard from their direction - disaffected and displaced people provide convenient fodder to bait weak willed racists and keep them in power. Portray the desperate destitute as opportunistic freeloaders. The more the better! Dress genocide up in "practicality" and "necessity" and you got yourself a convenient police state and then you can shit on the rest of the population too.
Aug 10, 2023 at 10:48pmWeb