Survival of Our Species Under the Failed Leadership of Nation States and Corporations is Unrealistic

“Extinction rebellion” is more than a phrase. It describes our path to protecting our children and Nature Herself.

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There are many people who blame capitalism for our climate crisis — they’re not wrong, but they aren’t entirely right either. There’s plenty of blame to go around. No country or corporation anywhere has led the way to meet the challenge of climate collapse. Indeed both corporations and countries have led us to the deadly precipice upon which we are now perched.

The nation state is a tool of oppression by various small minorities of elites, people who are destroying the planet for power and profit. This is true of American plutocrats, of Saudi sheiks, of Russian and Chinese dictators. It is a clueless ruling of elites — any and all elites — that has put all of us into such danger.

We cannot depend on them to save us — not by winning elections, not by persuasion and perhaps not even by applying pressure. We must overwhelm elites and make them irrelevant. We must impose a solution to the climate crisis without their approval.

Of course, this seems impossible for two reasons.

1. Climate activists are not powerful and are easily ignored or diverted by petro-profiteers…