Political change is necessary. Political change is ongoing. In some places much more productively than in the US. For alternatives to be used they must first be made available. Renewable energy and electrified transport. This happens at the level of government and industry. The big money. For that, we need to elect the right people. For that we need massed public pressure. And in some countries there are no real (or even fake!) elections. It’s in everyone’s interest who cares about the future of our planet and our species and our families to push climate change back. To slow it down. And then to stop it. And then to push it back. We must stop allowing “a handful of tyrants” to “ravage the world” (quoting Pope Leo). These tyrants are not only the heads of state but also the captains of industry and the mega billionaires. We must disempower these sociopaths, narcissists, fascists, greed-heads. They lend their support to political tyrannies because it’s convenient. And then increase pressure on their workers so much that Amazon workers have to pee in bottles on their shifts. The new gilded age is here. It is time for a new progressive reformation. Before the progressive age was The Age of Enlightenment which Wikipedia describes as:
Characterized by an emphasis on reason, empirical evidence, and the scientific method, the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights. Its thinkers advocated for constitutional government, the separation of church and state, and the application of rational principles to social and political reform. Age of Enlightenment
Tyrants and wannabe tyrants and populist-fascists the world over are trying to drag us back to the age of monarchy. They spread their lies over the airwaves and social Media and now with AI memes. They are trying to spread it to all the world’s nations so that no one troubles them about their looting and pillaging of their populace. For natural rights, progress, reason, and constitutional government to triumph, more than ever we need logic and rational principles to be seeded and take root and grow like kudzu over the garbage that has been spread everywhere, reclaiming the land of poular consciousness.
Let me also refer you to this excerpt from Jenny O’Dell’s Saving Time https://savetheoxygen.org/excerpts.html#saving-time-2
Cross posted at https://verysmallocean.org/things-to-do.html
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