True Left

Following up my previous post:

14,000 scientists warn of "untold suffering" if we fail to act on climate change
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There are some phrases that should stop you in your tracks. The warning of a future that holds "untold suffering" is one of them. That is exactly what scientists from around the world are cautioning will happen if we don't take the threat of climate change seriously. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal BioScience, more than 14,000 scientists from 153 countries signed their name to research that warns of an incoming climate emergency.

The paper, led by researchers from Oregon State University, uses 31 different planetary variables that tell us how Earth is holding up in the face of humanity's insistence on draining natural resources and pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The list of checks includes surface temperature levels, rainforest health, and glacial ice levels, along with directly human-controlled factors like the health of the global economy and the availability of fossil fuel subsidies.

https://www.mic.com/p/14000-scientists-warn-of-untold-suffering-if-we-fail-to-act-on-climate-change-82642062

Lol. Hundreds of millions of "low information voters" who vote for politicians who are paid millions of dollars by the fossil fuel industry and other consumerist industries >>>>>>>> 14,000 scientists.

Earth's f*cked I guess, since those 14,000 scientists and millions of people who claim care about global warming actually care about prolonging democracy more than they care about ending global warming.

We can use that as a wedge issue or litmus test or whatever one wants to call it. Ask people if they care more about ending global warming, ending animal exploitation, ending racism, making billionaires pay taxes, etc. or democracy. Ask them over and over again for every position they claim to hold. Because the solutions to all those issues are mutually exclusive with democracy. (You don't even need to point out that China has been the world's leader in renewable energy for decades, despite having to deal with the complexity of governing twice the amount of people as the US and EU combined, precisely because its non-democratic system of government is actually capable of getting things done:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/01/renewableenergy.climatechange
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-climate-change-policy-solar-production
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/01/11/china-renewable-energy-superpower/ )

Seriously, read the 14,000 scientists article. Look at all the dozens of dire warning signs that they've been pointing out since at least the 1960s. How can these people seriously claim to believe in the "climate emergency" if they aren't out there advocating for the immediate end to the system of government which refused for an entire lifetime to do even the bare minimum recommended abatement measures? Anyone who isn't advocating to switch to a competent form of government in order to tackle global warming isn't actually a climate activist or concerned about the "endless suffering" and "existential threat" posed by it. Such people are merely outrage junkies who write and read sensationalist headlines as a hobby.

If they were serious about tackling climate change, you'd think at least one--just one--of them would be willing to advocate for a better system of government. But every single one of them hold democracy to be more dear than fixing the planet. That's the hill they will literally die on--letting our entire planet die because they think it's too taboo and unimaginable to acknowledge that the West's system of government is utterly incapable of putting the welfare of society as a whole first. They care more about sustaining that facade than they care about ending global warming.





I've actually started to see more and more communist-leaning False Leftists say they reject "electoralism". They're so close, but democracy is still too sacred and taboo for them to speak out against it explicitly. But not for us--because we actually care about the fate of the planet.