Nice. Our Environment 2025 does a stellar job of reinforcing the idea that maintaining the current civilizational trajectory is paramount, which feels more than a little incongruous, given it’s the very engine of the catastrophe the report ostensibly seeks to address. But of course, you already know this.
What really stands out is how these reports still cling to the delusion or perhaps just the performance that they will inform evidence-based policy. All while, in the so-called ‘real world,’ capital consolidates power in plain sight, dismantling the very conditions that make long-term flourishing of complex life likely. And in this theatre of the absurd, Minister Jones feels emboldened to label environmentalists as Marxists, not because there’s a coherent ideological threat, but because he can’t even imagine a worldview that doesn’t demand extraction and exploitation to manufacture excess. From my limited reading, Marx wasn't know for wearing a 'save the whales' badge.
It’s like trying to reason with a deep-sea fish who insists water is a communist plot. Thanks for the lunch time catharsis Andy.
Thanks James. Yes, it also puts me in mind of how so many companies are now forced to meticulously detail the environmental damage they are doing, but not stop doing it, like serial killers who are just fine as long as they collect their own evidence.
Nice. Our Environment 2025 does a stellar job of reinforcing the idea that maintaining the current civilizational trajectory is paramount, which feels more than a little incongruous, given it’s the very engine of the catastrophe the report ostensibly seeks to address. But of course, you already know this.
What really stands out is how these reports still cling to the delusion or perhaps just the performance that they will inform evidence-based policy. All while, in the so-called ‘real world,’ capital consolidates power in plain sight, dismantling the very conditions that make long-term flourishing of complex life likely. And in this theatre of the absurd, Minister Jones feels emboldened to label environmentalists as Marxists, not because there’s a coherent ideological threat, but because he can’t even imagine a worldview that doesn’t demand extraction and exploitation to manufacture excess. From my limited reading, Marx wasn't know for wearing a 'save the whales' badge.
It’s like trying to reason with a deep-sea fish who insists water is a communist plot. Thanks for the lunch time catharsis Andy.
Thanks James. Yes, it also puts me in mind of how so many companies are now forced to meticulously detail the environmental damage they are doing, but not stop doing it, like serial killers who are just fine as long as they collect their own evidence.
"Multi-generational ram raid" ... exquisite🤌.