"Solidarity could start with seeking some common understanding of the structure of the political and economic system. Connecting that understanding to biophysical reality also means deconstructing the growth economy not re-establishing it as ‘Green’ based on mythical free energy sources and the benevolence of billionaires."
"By writing this piece I do not mean here to deny that there is an ecological crisis, and nor that there is a climate emergency and that urgent action is needed. Rather it is to show that there is a sophisticated PR campaign behind what is happening and the agenda is that of a major faction in the global elite. This agenda will not work – indeed it will complete the destruction of nature and the eco-system."
"There is no solution to the climate crisis which leaves capitalism’s compulsions to growth intact. And this is what the Green New Deal, a term coined by that oily neoliberal, Thomas Friedman, doesn’t address. It thinks you can keep capitalism, keep growth, but remove the deleterious consequences. The death villages are here to tell you that you can’t. No roses will bloom on that bush."
May 06
20195
350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, B Team [Managed by Purpose - the PR Arm of Avaaz], Greenpeace, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The bottom circle, the largest in size, represents the non-political citizens, the target audience of XR: "The people who're shitting themselves and want something to be done but aren't highly political."
Apr 26
20191
350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, B Team [Managed by Purpose - the PR Arm of Avaaz], Foundations, Greenpeace, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Oxfam, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose Inc., Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Selling Extinction is a short introduction to the capitalist notion of a "Green New Deal", the NGOs that support it and the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London."
"This is now officially an ex-Rebellion, shorn of all pretence of radicalism. Instead, what we find is a list of “business leaders” who have identified environmental catastrophe as yet another get-rich opportunity.And they are prepared to hijack and exploit people’s real love for life and nature in order to push their profiteering agenda."
Apr 24
20190
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that capitalism will either be overthrown and superseded or it will lead us to extinction as a species. If it is not to be just another ideology of liberalism to which Extinction Rebellion unfortunately bears numerous points of resemblance, an environmentalist project must at the same time also be a revolutionary project."
"While climate philanthropy cannot be blamed for rising temperatures, its efforts to curb climate change must be critically scrutinized. We must hold it accountable for its role in developing and promoting the voluntary, market-based, and bottom-up approach that presently dominates the international climate agenda and that has clearly not delivered the required results."
"The ruling class produced by accumulation society simply will not put its own system up for debate. Thus the climate change policies we discuss—even and perhaps in particular the Green New Deal—take for granted not just the persistence of commodity accumulation, but its continued growth."
"The training of this new “labor corps” is already on a war footing. Just as the New Deal obtained the support of practically all the leftist intellectuals and militants in the United States, the new ecological course of bureaucratic capitalism is mobilizing on a world scale all the “kind-hearted apparatchiks” of environmental and humanitarian just causes."