"All environmentalists in the global North have operated from the same assumption: the more the climate crisis hits us, the more climate rational we’ll become. But the last few years have falsified that hypothesis. In fact, the more the climate catastrophe escalates, the less we want to look at it. Shit has gotten worse. But shit getting worse in a way that reminds us of all the changes we should have made over the last 30 years doesn’t make us more rational."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/how-do-we-build-social-movements-for-an-age-of-collapse/
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@gert generally speaking: the populations of rich societies, where even the poor benefit from the late imperial exploitation of everybody and everything else
@muellertadzio Or is it the corporate media in combination with certified capitalist politicians who would rather not think about collapse..
@gert which is where i disagree, since that assumption relies on a fundamental misreading of the fact that populations in rich countries are actively integrated into the process of global destruction: our livelihoods literally depend on it. if you want to read something about it, try google translate on this text: https://steady.page/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/858dc650-06f9-4abd-b03c-0e2be080b2a3
@gerrymcgovern
> "... shit getting worse in a way that reminds us of all the changes we should have made over the last 30 years doesn’t make us more rational."
I think it could have, if those trying to defend Big Carbon hadn't been so successful at undermining our sense of safety and public trust, which enables us to spend time using our rational faculties, instead of in the more knee-jerk, defensive part of our cognitive range.
@gerrymcgovern great post, Gerry. This guy absolutely rocks, in a German angsty sort of way. I am going to check his book out.
@alberto_cottica yes. Blunt and too the point. Full of hard earned wisdom
@gerrymcgovern ah, damn it. A dissertation, not a book.
@alberto_cottica @gerrymcgovern morning! check out my blog, some of the posts are in english: https://steady.page/de/friedlichesabotage/topics/english
and the first book should come out in english at zero books early next year.
@muellertadzio Will do, Tadzio. As I said, impressive interview. Keep.up.tbe good work. @gerrymcgovern
@gerrymcgovern
> the more the climate catastrophe escalates, the less we want to look at it.
Who is "we" ?