Don’t be fooled by the well paid prophets of doom. The end of this civilization will not be the end of the world, but its reparation.
Just as we learned to survive without Caesar or priest-king, we will find in the destruction of the current power structure, a new dawn of potential.
The stewards of late capitalism have every reason to be pessimistic. Green capitalism, their newfound faith, seeks an to impose an austerity meant not only to keep a dying monster alive, but to reinforce the power of the upper class both materially and culturally. It seeks to baptize consumerism and the captains of industry in the waters of environmentalism, a conversion as insincere and calculated as Constantine’s Christianity.
In an ironic twist, we are asked to believe that the same corporations that caused the current ecological nightmare can be trusted as the answer to it. That is, if we pay them more money.
Such a scheme could only be perpetrated on those bombarded by messages of panic as we are. To be sure, there are ecological issues at hand, none of which will be solved by switching brands of coffee.
I’ll have more to say about this later.
