We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Engineering the climate could cost us the earth

Click here to access article by Gareth Dale from Ecologist.

Excellent essay that frames our present ecological dilemma in the fantastic nature of alien capitalist rule. This was metaphorically captured in a science fiction film which views the dramatic alteration of the biosphere through the lens of imagination.
Engineering the earth’s climate is nothing new. Capitalists, in coalition with alien overlords from Andromeda, have been at it for years.

That is the backstory to John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi classic, They Live. An alien race colonises Earth. Disguised as humans they run the world, helped by accomplices among the native business community.
They manipulate the human drones through consumerism and subliminal injunctions: ‘Obey,’ ‘Marry and breed,’ and ‘Work!’ The dutiful masses produce, reproduce and consume, all for the benefit of the Andromedan/capitalist masters.
(I hope you are wearing the "special sunglasses".)

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You might also be interested in an article entitled "Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion" by Michael Friedman from Capitalism and Climate.
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