Wipe That Smile

The head of the IEA is reporting that global emissions "may fall by 5%". But we are not supposed to celebrate:

“This decline is happening because of the economic meltdown in which thousands of people are losing their livelihoods, not as a result of the right government decisions in terms of climate policies,” he said.

Ah yes. "Right government decisions". People cling desperately to this irrational belief in liberal Capitalist Democracy, despite the many decades of evidence that "governments" are captive to an imperative of economic growth. Why else would it have been necessary to lose 18,000 lives to the pandemic before emissions could be brought down?

It is an uncomfortable truth that real change only happens through catastrophe. So called "politics" is an illusion, like "green capitalism". Are we really supposed to be upset that oil towns like Houston or Bakersfield are in deep shit? Fuck Houston. Big Oil and their loyal minions- all the way down to local politicians and loyal workers- were perfectly ready to let us all suffer so they could maintain their "way of life". I hope they all go bankrupt and end up begging for food on the streets. They all voted for these pathological grifters we call "politicians" who rape and murder to keep the oil flowing. So I hope they are ruined. Like they were willing to ruin us.

Because you can talk and explain and discuss and argue till you are blue in the face- nothing sinks in with these rubes- not till their entire world crumbles and they are reduced to digging through dumpsters. And even then they are more likely to join a fascist cult. Whatever.