We are in the decisive decade NOW, to answer the crisis of global warming soon to make the Earth unlivable for many countless lifeforms.
Say what you will about the system being rigged, but we have no choice but to engage it, to stop the machine of Capitalism, before it’s too late.
We don’t have the luxury of cynically checking out from existing systems/institituons, not voting, and not strategically trying to build In-System power legislatively, to place hard caps on emissions as soon as possible, with the most severe punishment enforced upon polluting companies which do not meet a lawfully set benchmark.
If we target corrupting mechanisms of “money in politics”, we can build that political power, to pass needed radical Sustainability legislation in this way. Doesn’t mean becuase we engage politically that we endorse the system to continue it as is whatsoever. It’s simply about understanding the levers of power, to dismantle the mechanisms OF power and the System itself, to build up sane/fair ones.
This can be done in tandem with our other approaches of awareness building, out-system tactics, open source development, etc., without contradiction. Our approaches must be holistic, strategic, aiming to change the system in some way, and be complimentary to one another in parallel, in an overlapping mutually reinforcing way, to be effective.
