Politicians, Businessmen and Media Are Telling You: We Will Finish Off the Earth

The Democrats are useless. The GOP is worse. The only way to survive is to ditch the system, and put sane, caring and competent people in charge of a worldwide emergency climate program. Sounds impossible? Not a bit.

The threat to stop nonexistent progress.

As I write these words, I see the headline on the New York Times — the physical paper — which I have in front of me. It reads:

“GOP Blueprint for ’24: Gutting Climate Progress”

And it goes on to say, in the subhead, “Conservative Group’s Plan for a Republican President Relies on Fossil Fuels”.

To which I say: WHAT CLIMATE PROGRESS?

Petro-Plutocrats Have A Plan

The political and economic systems have one plan with two party hats:

1. To provide some cover for fossil fuel profiteers while they finish destroying our children’s Earth to maximize shareholder returns by enacting toothless “regulations” and financial incentives, OR
2. To brutally and openly gut even those token efforts to slow the climate collapse, claiming that the economy is more important and that maybe the climate isn’t such a big problem anyway.

Both parties have repeatedly announced, through their actions, that they are in league with fossil fuel profiteers and will kill you and your children and finish off the Earth with the Sixth Extinction. We know this because, despite all the claims that either the climate crisis isn’t real or that our leaders are working to stop climate collapse, C02 emissions are at record levels, and they are still increasing.

The problem with both of these approaches is that the climate collapse is visibly being seen and felt everywhere as the Earth’s temperatures are the hottest in 120,000 years. It’s impossible to overstate just how unbelievable the claims will be to literally billions of people worldwide.

We might not understand this immediately. The media — the corporate media — will continue to focus attention on their Bizarro world views. And there will be millions of people who still believe — even as our cities choke under clouds of toxic smoke and millions struggle under brutal heat domes. Those people will be…