Mike Davis: “Right now, my mind is occupied with fairly extremist ideas about what needs to be done. Once you accept what the real stakes are [of climate catastrophe]—I’m not advocating violence, but I’m advocating confrontational politics writ large.”🔥/
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“I’ve been asked so many times, ‘Do you have hope? Do you believe in hope?’ My answer’s always the same: hope isn’t a scientific term, and it’s not the reason people fight. People fight because they love other people. They fight for humanity. They fight because they’re angry.”/
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“I find it very harrowing that the only person in the world who constantly speaks about the solidarity of humanity… is an Argentinian soccer fan who lives in Rome [Pope Francis]… Since the Cold War, the idea of human solidarity is vastly diminished.”/
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“In this country, [there’s a] tendency to call older radicals, to see them as somehow elders. I’m not an elder. I have no tribal wisdom to dispense. Rather, I try to be as attentive as possible to what young people are saying and where they’re leading us.”//
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Confrontational politics?
Is there any other?
Vast majority of us are claiming hi-emission lifestyles.
Some throw in an EV or heat pump and say that will solve it.
Like person who's drunk every night but goes to gym in the morning.
Unhealthy lifestyles aren't fixed by exercising.
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Nothing more ironic than Mike 'Planet of Slums' Davis whining about high gasoline prices in California.
Kind of sounds like one of those nineteenth century American preachers. I interpret environmentalism as Neo-Christianity with nature replacing God. If we don't live consistent with the concept, we are doomed. Perish in the fires of hell! Apocalypse!