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2019
Capitalising on Crisis: Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal for Capitalism

Capitalising on Crisis: Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal for Capitalism

"Once again, therefore, the environment is being subordinated to the profit margins of developers and investors, in which it represents a slice of expenditure in capitalism’s pie."

To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough

To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough

"The climate solutions that the capitalists present to us are designed to make us feel better while we keep letting the system move us closer to apocalypse."

A 100 Trillion Dollar Storytelling Campaign

A 100 Trillion Dollar Storytelling Campaign

October 6, 2019 By Cory Morningstar   The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg...

The Global Climate Strikes: No, this was not co-optation. This was and is PR. A brief timeline

The Global Climate Strikes: No, this was not co-optation. This was and is PR. A brief timeline

The structure of the system is working exactly as it is designed to. The NPIC exists to insulate the current power structures and capital itself.

No Class

No Class

"The ruling class exists, it’s not a conspiracy theory. They operate as a class, too. They share the same values, the same sensibility and in Europe and North America they are white. They act in accordance with their interests, which are very largely identical. The failure to understand this is the single greatest problem and defect in left discourse today."

Climate Hypocrisy

Climate Hypocrisy

"The third and fourth world societies–plundered for their high-tech minerals devoured by the first and second world–are simply expendable."

Wind Energy Development, Conflict & Resistance

Wind Energy Development, Conflict & Resistance

"Fossil Fuel+, on the other hand, was a term designed for my climate justice friends and other people involved in mainstream environmental activism who believe in this dichotomy between fossil fuels and renewable energy. That dichotomy is false."

Colorado’s Scripted Environmentalism is an Impostor for the Real Thing

Colorado’s Scripted Environmentalism is an Impostor for the Real Thing

"The political class better get used to losing the narrative and make way for the people. The global environmental apocalypse is only going to make this battle far sharper."

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: Natural Climate Manipulations  [Volume II, Act VI]

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: Natural Climate Manipulations [Volume II, Act VI]

Here, Greta Thunberg becomes the official face for, and of, corporate capture. The rebranding of REDD (the UN "reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation" market mechanism), and the coming New Deal for Nature – under the auspices and brand of "natural climate solutions".

American Psychopathy

American Psychopathy

"The fact that militarism and the packaging industry are relatively ignored in the presentation of the new green movement suggests more suspicion. Instead of *everyone* not using straws or single use plastic bags, how about just stop producing them."