Here's Sarah Miller (@sarahmiller_22747) describing how capitalism operates, and how Business As Usual will be extended for as long as possible — until, that is, it collapses. But not until after every last dollar has been squeezed out of us and extracted from our ravaged environment.
News from the climate front has become incoherent. One day a report comes out noting how fast solar and EVs are transforming power generation and transportation, and how the world can still limit climate warming to 1.5℃. A few days later, new reports, including one from the UN, conclude the world is lagging “massively” in efforts to keep climate change within those same 1.5℃ bounds.
Meanwhile, temperatures and ocean levels keep on rising at rates that exceed expectations, suggesting we may be relying on unrealistic assumptions about the impacts of greenhouse gas pollution.
Some of the incoherence is inevitable in an unprecedented, fast-moving, and frightening situation. But some of it is created on purpose. It’s Big Everything throwing up a smoke screen, putting out misleading information designed to improve the chances of its own survival.
Big Everything includes but is not limited to Big Oil. It also encompasses Big Finance, Big Tech, Big Manufacturing, and a bunch of billionaires.
