like holy shit the bourgeoisie are trying to kill us all actively en masse within our lifetimes and all movement against it feels like it has died come the 20s. Every time it gets brought up it feels like people are either revelling in it, are denying it, are too tired to care, say “someone’s going to fix it so there’s no point in worrying," or get angry asking “well what do you want me to do about it I can’t fix it” or something. It feels like we’re in a moment where we have just abandoned science all together in the decaying west, so the plan is almost like to keep attacking the biosphere out of spite for everyone around us.
It feels Lovecraftian, I can’t think about it because every time I do it paralyzes me in awe of the urgency and scope of what has to be done. Do I just stop thinking about it? I guess the answer is to keep organizing but I’m scared that we don’t have enough time at this rate to address it before it gets catastrophic and has irreversible effects
Honestly? By not hitching my hopes to a collective American national consciousness having a change of heart; by instead having a pretty well-developed strategy for land acquisition for the purpose of building communes that do extensive permaculture and silviculture, maximal self-sufficiency through appropriate technology, and biochar sequestration. My networks have a good amount of land projects going already, and most of what we need is for a lot of people to make the lifestyle switch from “living as an individual socialist under capitalism” to “living as part of a collective project”.
In the meantime I have a low-end “first-world” income level with a high-end “third-world” consumption level. In less than a year I will be set to really take off with urban commune and workers’ cooperative projects. Maybe people see how much better of a living we’re making for ourselves and desert the market to us en masse, or maybe they don’t and make capitalist colossus teeter more. To hell or utopia; either answer satisfies us.
Yes I am basically wagering that something close to the pre-Cambrian level of CO2 is not enough to turn us into a runaway hothouse Earth that resembles Venus, and that a lot of salvaging can be done in a generation or two once Western civilization topples under its own destabilizing forces. These may not be true but believing against them doesn’t help the cause.