Even when climate change is addressed in the so-called "liberal" corporate media, the language used corrupts our ability to think. We are told we must go on a "war footing" to deal with the crisis. Positive comparisons are made with the emergency response to the pandemic, as though the resource-depleting and polluting production of endless, disposable masks and plastic tubes for lateral flow-testing, and a new obsession with hygiene, offer some kind of model for a green revolution. And even the Green New Deal is promoted in terms of Roosevelt's consumption-driven New Deal of the 1930s.
The reality is that we can save our species -- assuming it can be saved at all at this late stage -- only by radically transforming our societies: by ending inequality, by criminalizing greed, by dispossessing billionaires, by nationalizing corporations, by making economies and political systems far more localized, by introducing real democratic accountability, by abolishing the corporate media, by funding critical thinking in our education system, and much else.
These are the minimal and urgent preconditions for our species to adapt to a future in which we do not experience runaway global heating. And yet they are voiced nowhere in our political or media discourses. And for that we have the billionaires, and their bunker and space colony fantasies, to thank.
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