Adam Aron: I want to start with your views on the climate struggle then and now. A few years ago, you were in Germany’s lignite pits trying to stop the

All environmentalists in the global North have operated from the same strategic assumption: the more the climate crisis hits us, the more climate rational we’ll become. But the last few years have falsified that hypothesis. In fact, the more the climate catastrophe escalates, the less we want to look at it.

  • iocase@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I say go back to actual print pamphleteering. The internet is so heavily censored and loud with distractions good luck ever getting your message across. Plus entrenched interests will bribe lobby the government and facebook and X to drop or censor you. Payment processors will say they’re concerned about supporting radicalism and now you don’t have a funding method besides crypto…

    The system is going to suck up surplus energy in all it’s forms (energy, attention, bureaucratic capacity, political party policies) to protect itself and incumbent rent seekers. I really really think the only way to shake things up enough (going off of history) is a massive social revolution or a devastating war with a peer or near peer actor. Expediency kills off enough of the rent seekers or sidelines them that there’s a chance post war you can actually focus on doing something productive instead of making sure Count Richfuck jr. IV can have uninterrupted access to the peasant’s money.