We Can Save Ourselves, But Only If

We Live In This Culture Of Endless Extraction And Disposal: Extraction From The Earth, Extraction From People's Bodies, From Communities, As If There's No Limit, As If There's No Consequence To How We're Taking And Disposing, And As If It Can Go On Endlessly. We Are Reaching The Breaking Point On Multiple Levels. Communities Are Breaking, The Planet Is Breaking, People's Bodies Are Breaking. We Are Taking Too Much.

So The Need For Another Economic Model Is Urgent, And If The Climate Justice Movement Can Show That Responding To Climate Change Is The Best Chance For A More Just Economic System.

That's What's Happening Now. The World Is Being Held Up A Mirror: "all Roads Lead Here. Do You Like It?" A Lot Of People Don't Like It. A Lot Of People Are Saying, "wait A Minute, If Our System Can Produce That, There's Something Wrong With This System." That Opening Is Ours To Seize. It Matters How We Name It: It's Not Called Donald Trump. It's Called Capitalism.

I'm Not Talking About Trump's Brand But Rather The Intimately Connected Brand Called "make America Great Again" That He Created To Make All These Promises To Working Americans - Is Intensely Vulnerable, If There Is Sustained Scrutiny Of The Kind We've Seen About Comey And Russia. He's Appointed Five Goldman Sachs Former Executives To His Cabinet, His Commerce Secretary Is Renegotiating Nafta To Make It Far Better For Corporations And Worse For Workers, And They're Talking About This Right Out In The Open... I Mean, How Much News Have You Seen About That?

And That Is What Is Behind The Abrupt Rise In Climate Change Denial Among Hardcore Conservatives: They Have Come To Understand That As Soon As They Admit That Climate Change Is Real, They Will Lose The Central Ideological Battle Of Our Time—whether We Need To Plan And Manage Our Societies To Reflect Our Goals And Values, Or Whether That Task Can Be Left To The Magic Of The Market.