tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257493550531569180.post8243295398238457774..comments2024-03-26T16:16:22.535+13:00Comments on AGAINST THE CURRENT: MIKE DAVIS : 'DESPAIR IS USELESS'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257493550531569180.post-90390639824778970682022-09-04T13:57:55.949+12:002022-09-04T13:57:55.949+12:00I feel that we are watching a real battle begin to...I feel that we are watching a real battle begin to unfurl. Climate change is biting and the need for change is now very hard to ignore. The question is who will sacrifice (or be sacrificed).<br /><br />There is nothing new about the answer from the wealthiest. It has always been the same answer. I feel I've been watching the rich position themselves and prepare the narrative for quite a long time.<br /><br />It is hard to have to look at the picture that has been generated. The poor are pitched against the welfare of humanity and of the planet we all inhabit. The wealthy advertise their 'caring' with expensive and supposedly climate-friendly toys. <br /><br />And a large number of people are already lined up to smooth the path -squeezed harder and harder with irresistible attrition. In New Zealand we call them the underclass. Protest can be portrayed as antithetical to the best interests of humanity and to the struggling ecosystems of nature. questionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12482991855420704515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257493550531569180.post-39147018404177454982022-09-03T17:33:00.190+12:002022-09-03T17:33:00.190+12:00What really frightens me is controlling and squeez...What really frightens me is controlling and squeezing the poorest being touted as the 'solution', as the mega-rich make off with the spoils.<br /><br />Of course electric cars and other individual remedies are just window dressing. But it strikes me that climate change is shaping up to be the latest chapter of disaster capitalism. Thus far, each paragraph of its narrative hits the poor harder. I will fight against inhumanity as 'solution'.questionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12482991855420704515noreply@blogger.com