The biggest story of the climate crisis is WHY none of our governments are acting on it with the means at their disposal and the seriousness it requires. The question is WHY are they not acting? Is it a lack of solutions, uninformed politicians, or something else? A short
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We have entire departments dedicated to fossil-fueled infrastructures and subsidies: road building, airport support, car-dependent urban planning and zoning, laws enforcing extraction (in the case of Scotland). Our govts are captured creatures of the fossil-fuel industries. 12/
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So for us to expect our governments, magically, once politicians and civil servants understood the magnitude of the climate crisis, to do everything in their power to ramp down fossil fuel support and support new technologies and industries was always a tad naive. 13/
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The reality of state capture by fossil industries means that our governments must first act on themselves, to purge their own internal processes of fossil-fueled corruption. This true of our political parties and labour unions too, by the way. It's no small task. 14/
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And how do we accomplish this vital task? That's my final point. The only way to stop an industry which has captured our governments for decades is what I have learned to call "social coercion": we, the people, must force our governments to escape fossil-fuel capture. 15/
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In my view, this social coercion to act on the climate crisis can only come about as the result of massive popular movements, which thank god are now all around us: the
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So this is the point of this less-than-short (sorry!) thread: the climate crisis requires us to join popular movements, political parties, labour unions, and do the work to free our democracies & economies from fossil-fuel capture. Once we do that, we win. 17/
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But it will never happen just because solutions (carbon taxes/prices, renewable energy, whatever) "exist." These solutions exist on paper: fossil industry capture of our societies exists in reality, to block them. Realizing solutions means dismantling the barriers first. 18/
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And the only force strong enough to do this dismantling are massive popular movements. So join one, join several, support them, talk about it, get your workplace and schools and politicians to support them as well. Together we can win this, but only if we see ourselves as power.
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The End. This was a thread discussing the interconnections of points (6), (7), (8), (9) of my "10 basic facts". I hope it explains some of where I'm coming from on this.pic.twitter.com/b8hHLk4eQU
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