McKibben's Divestment Tour - Brought to you by Wall Street
This article is a letter-perfect look at the reasons I'm withdrawing from the whole climate-change/system-collapse community. We are so far beyond fucked that we can't even see fucked from here. The betrayal runs so deep. I threw up in my mouth reading this.
I need to go stare at a tree while I still can. There may not be any birds in it, and it may be dying from ozone poisoning, but it's still a tree. At least until it becomes lumber for a new building project in the Biosphere Economy™.
McKibben's Divestment Tour - Brought to you by Wall Street
Beyond shelling out billions of tax-exempt dollars (i.e., investments) to those institutions most accommodating in the non-profit industrial complex (otherwise known as foundations), the corporations need not lift a finger to sell this pseudo green agenda to the people in the environmental movement; the feat is being carried out by a tag team comprised of the legitimate and the faux environmentalists. As the public is wholly ignorant and gullible, it almost has no comprehension of the following:
1. the magnitude of our ecological crisis
2. the root causes of the planetary crisis, or
3. the non-profit industrial complex as an instrument of hegemony.
The commodification of the commons will represent the greatest, and most cunning, coup d’état in the history of corporate dominance – an extraordinary fait accompli of unparalleled scale, with unimaginable repercussions for humanity and all life.
Gone is the green economy. Welcome to the Next System, the Regenerative System, the New Economy, the Biosphere Economy, etc. A fusion of rhapsodic and mellifluous language that creates a sublime chrysalis to further expand capital markets. The second verse is the same as the first.
It’s almost as the world’s most powerful institutions and oligarchs, in a united effort of unparalleled dimension, want to sell us something.