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.

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@HeavenlyPossum My only hopeful thought about this is that extreme weather will tend to dismantle the larger structures of authoritarian capital even faster than it can smash close-knit communities of peasants. We can replace drowned goats and torn-away thatched roofs faster and for longer than they can replace coastal cities, military-industrial complexes, and the chip fabs that they need to maintain panopticon surveillance.
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In the past, during mass extinctipn events, apex predators have often been the first species to go, so there's some precedent to justify this hope.