A.A. Delafin, radicalFeb 24
A few years ago I read Half-Earth Socialism by Vettesse & Pendergrass. It's quite a good and inspiring book, and it helped push me further in my efforts for the preservation of our biosphere - I recommend it. But it had one major flaw to me: in spite of it's ambitions to be utopian - #solarpunk even - in it's imagination, I could never again shake off the dystopian scenario sketched out in the first chapter. In it, fossil capitalism continues on and switches to #geoengineering to make that possible. It also destroyed any organized climate opposition. Something clicked in my thinking, making it clear how under #capitalism this is actually the best scenario. It made me really afraid, something the latter chapters never managed to alleviate.
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@mysteriarch Understandable fear. Yes, the book tries to imagine wild changes and still make the challenges realistic. I read that part as putting out the perspective of the unequal and uneven distribution of global revolution. Which makes sense to me - there are already places now where fossil fuel based fascism is getting stronger and places where people are experimenting more or less with different ways of inhabiting the earth. Sometimes those places are in the same country.
Feb 24 at 8:20amWeb