HOW THE RICH PLAN TO RULE A BURNING PLANET
"They are like angels of death, happy to watch the world burn, and millions burn with it, if they can preserve for themselves the heavenly realm of a system that has brought them untold riches.
In the face of the climate crisis, the main priority of the global ruling class and its political servants is to batten down the hatches. Publicly, they’re telling school kids not to worry about the future. Behind the scenes, however–in the cabinet offices, boardrooms, mansions and military high commands–they’re hard at work, planning for a future in which they can maintain their power and privilege amid the chaos and destruction of the burning world around them.
We’re not, as some in the environment movement argue, “all in this together”. There are many ways in which the wealthy minority at the top of society are already protected from the worst climate change impacts. Big corporations can afford to spend millions on mitigating climate change risks–ensuring their assets are protected so they can keep their business running even during a major disaster. Businesses and wealthy individuals can also protect themselves by taking out insurance policies that will pay out if their property is damaged in a flood, fire or other climate-related disaster.
The rich are also protected from climate change on a more day to day level. They tend to live in the leafiest suburbs, in large, climate-controlled houses. They have shorter commutes to work, where, again, they’re most often to be found in the most comfortable, air-conditioned buildings. They’re not the ones working on farms or construction sites, in factories or warehouses–struggling with the increasing frequency of summer heatwaves. They’re not the ones living in houses with no air conditioning, sweating their way through stifling summer nights. They have pools and manicured lawns and can afford their own large water tanks to keep their gardens green in the hot, dry summer months."
Maybe you rather have corporatism and fascism?
where democracy is replaced
with
corporatism at the expense of public health, enlightenment and freedom where corporations can pummel the public into submission and where governments are divested of the ability to control policy, economy, and ultimately the fate of the nation.
Hurry, let's
replace democratic socialism
with a financialised and hypermobile global capital state from a tradition of a privileged, predominantly white and male perspective whose economic identity is intimately intertwined with the most egregious form of predatory capitalism and prosperous circumstances built on the backs of imperialism, colonialism, slavery and white supremacy,
who believes that this prosperity was not only normal, but legitimately earned.
Hurry, let's
take down democracy, science, education and freedom
and replace it with
utopian anarcho-capitalist pseudo-religious fascist anarchist white supremo haven
where we, their disposable work horses, works our arses off for minimum wages before we die bending over for the billionaire oligarchs casual gods.
Hurry. let's be
mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats.
Let's become billionaire worshippers, let's become peasants for plutocracy
"Sold to the public as quasi-scholarly organizations, their real function was to legitimize the right to pollute for oil, gas and coal companies, and to argue for ever more tax cuts for the people who created them.The genius of this strategy is to “turn corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets”
Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution
The 20th century will go down as the century when corporate polluters realized, by using billions on disinformation campaigns, they could dupe the public into believing their attacks on science was about the science being wrong, when it really was about them protecting their blood money flow.
If the internet had been around in the 60s and 70s, climate deniers would be arguing against the health effects of smoking, and dredging up historical/anecdotal examples to insist that lung cancer was "natural", while warning that smoking cessation efforts were all part of a global conspiracy of taxation and socio-economic control.
"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".