Scientists have issued yet another clarion call regarding our seemingly unstoppable momentum toward climate catastrophe. In a recent article, The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth, some of the world’s leading climate scientists lay it out.
They can sound all the alarms they want. Nothing’s going to change. We feel tied by the system, forced to keep feeding the machine for the profit of a very few, while the vast majority only survive with the illusion that if we keep working for the system, one day we’ll be able to enjoy life. And the very few that are benefitted from our work hold the power to stop this. But they won’t. And we won’t forcefully take the power from them, until it’s too late. Shit’s bleak man…
Not so sure about that. I think change is a constant.
Systemic changes occur despite the narratives we are fed by predominant power systems (that they are super strong and have “logical” linear continuity from prehistoric/ancient times, through god or whatever along those lines).
Look at what happened to the notion of kings around the world. Sure, some are still around but the power they have is not comparable to what their grandparent had, if any.
Or what happened to the soviet block. To my knowledge - nobody expected it to collapse when it did, not even the secret intelligence services of opposing capitalist countries.
So no matter what the future holds, I’d say let’s dare and imagine inclusive, egalitarian, ecological solutions against the predominant narrative of structural despair.