One of the charms of the Internet reading of late last week was Harrison Stetler's article in Jacobin, titled "Changing Our Individual Behavior Isn’t Going to Save the Planet." Now, I do not keep track of French politics.
The day before yesterday there appeared this article in Scientific American: Climate Anxiety is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon by Sarah Jaquette Ray.
The primary argument here appears to be that:
Let's start with climate change. My position on climate change was encapsulated in a paper I wrote some time ago.
Right now I want to bring your attention to an article by Kai Heron and Jodi Dean in "e-flux," Revolution or Ruin, because it illustrates an important dilemma in today's politics which I've been discussing elsewhere on the Internet.
Here's Jimmy Dore echoing the same sentiment, kind of.
From three days ago, Washington Post editorialist and Council on Foreign Relations member Fred Hiatt tells us:
How Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both reject the reality of climate change
This is an op-ed by John Steppling from Dec. 21, 2019 at off-guardian.org for your consideration. We’d been discussing both capitalism and climate change recently, and although this all seems so utterly beside the point now given the ever-increasing US threats to increased war on Iran (now even nuclear war). But I’d said I’d post it, so I am; I’ll offer a couple things at the end. As John’s kindly given me permission to republish all that he writes, I’ll post it all.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
Lenin – Letters from Afar
... people are thinking of getting out. One of Australia's bushfire historians imagines:
The subtitle of this book is "How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet." Okay so why am I reviewing a book that was published in 2017? Mostly it's because with the ascension of Bernie Sanders' second campaign, the elites are getting desperate. And so Michael Bloomberg to the rescue!
With the emergence of Extinction Rebellion, climate change discussions in debates, and other trends, climate change has become an object of public inquiry. One popular avenue of "climate change mitigation" is the carbon tax.
First, from the Extinction Rebellion newsletter’s ‘Drones Are Changing Asymmetrical Warfare’, September 18, 2019, Max Wilbert, deep green resistance news service
The following scheme is deranged, dangerous, and as disgusting as any thing I’ve heard promoted in a long time. In fact, after having worked on this for a couple days, before bed last night I’d tossed my cookies when the images flashed in my mind like a neon light again. It’s also insanely cavalier given how much of the world depends on oil for heating, cooling, and cooking through no fault of their own, and how many economies are based on oil. Whose refineries does Wilbert imagine drone bombing next?
