The president on climate crisis: a little late but covering his six o'clock
Earth Day is coming. The president says climate change is urgent now. I'm not impressed.
They waited long enough to allow the inducted legions of corporate storm troops (mostly unknown to themselves) to muddy up the public dialog about climate change. Because of intentional sandbaggery by world and corporate leaders, the outcomes now will be drastic in our lifetime. Some large corporations are jockeying for supremacy in the coming economy of environmental collapse. Following Shock Doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine), they will exploit evolving climate crises worldwide - business as usual for some - or so they think now.
Quality of life will diminish for all. Desertification, drought, food shortages, water shortages, extreme weather of many kinds, sea rise along the coasts, massive refugee migrations, enormous holes punched in the global web of life. The collapse of ancient natural feedback loops in air and ocean currents. Acidification and warming of oceans with massive animal and plankton die offs and extinctions - dire consequences for world food supply. All this is now beginning to disrupt world society. We're against the clock and losing. Don't feel it yet? Wait a year. You will.
But lets definitely plant some trees, broadcast a photo op and say some eloquent words to "deal" with it. By all accounts, it's too late to do much of anything that will matter. Our ability to impact the runaway effects of climate change, already in motion, is diminished. Survival of an integrated society is a matter of faith now.
We are headed for new tribalism in a denatured corporate wilderness. Am I being extreme in my prognostications? Barring some unimaginably massive deus ex machina event, I don't think so.
People who didn't allow themselves to be bludgeoned and converted to some flavor of obscurantist climate change denial, have seen this coming for three decades. You don't see these things evolving outside the scope of the media frame if you're still trapped as an habitual consumer of the corporate world view.
Of course, the answer isn't on YouTube either. That's mythopoesis central - interesting for anthropologists but not very helpful if you're looking for facts. It's in finding the scientists who actually have something to say about the crisis and studying their reasoning on the subject.
It's mostly too late though. As I see it, the president's message is a palliative gesture at best. As time goes on, they'll just spin the horrendous changes and normalize it all for the next generation. Growing up in it, most people will believe life has always been this way. That's the preferred outcome for the regime.
They expect us to adapt or die. I'd rather blow their minds.
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