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Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate Excoriate World Leaders for 'Blah, Blah, Blah' Climate Failures
A little while ago, I realized that there now comes a point in every late summer on Turtle Island in which the west coast is literally on fire, while the east coast is being battered by severe hurricanes. Climate catastrophe is clearly not an oncoming event, so much as its already here and that should be pretty obvious to anyone reading stories about folks drowning in New York City basement apartments - at a minimum.
You can drone on at me about whether or not these young women's activism is effective, or revolutionary, but at least they get to yell at some of the rat bastards that are helping kill us all. I'd like to yell at them too, wouldn't you?
The fact is, there is no way out of climate catastrophe that involves keeping capitalism; it's not technology, or even sums of money itself that's stopping us from saving life on this planet - it's the bald reality that our society doesn't do *anything* unless it profits elite capital directly, and in the short term.
Frankly, I wish they'd drag Greta and Vanessa to Wall Street because those are the guys trying to murder the lot of us for a quick buck. Billionaire anarcho-capitalists are killing the planet in real time for pennies on the share, and those guys don't work at the U.N. Obviously, these politicians are mostly just bellhops for capital.
nina illingworth
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