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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Show threadA.A. Delafin, radicalFeb 24

Last year I read Malm & Carton their two books on #overshoot #CCS and geoengineering that analysed this dynamic further. It's truly a horror scenario and it's the path that we're on. It's all baked in into the structure of our society, economy and politics.

Remember: 'The Earth is not dying - it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.'

Show threadMarcFeb 24
@mysteriarch never 100% comfortable with the "names and address" part. Get rid of them , their place will be filled by others. The real target is the underlying system, the people defending it need to be fought, but defeating them individually won't be enough.
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@corpsmoderne @mysteriarch

I don't know about that. One name and address, yes. A thousand names and addresses, and actual, real, life-or-death pressure ? Maybe the incentives to dominate aren't the same and there is an opening for a more profound change
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Show threadMarcFeb 24

@rakoo @mysteriarch for me it's a question of treating the effects or the root cause. Get rid of all the billionaires (and those who defend them) but keep Capitalism as an economic system, I guaranty you in two generations, you'll have billionaires once again. Get rid of capitalism and those who defend it, and billionaires are gone for good.

(* I'm using "get rid of" in a very loose way, not necessarily meaning physical elimination, but elimination as a social category)

Show threadrakooFeb 24
@corpsmoderne @mysteriarch yes, I know. I also know that "getting rid of capitalism" isn't a strategy, it's a goal. Getting rid of billionaires _can_ create the conditions in which a revolution is possible