[spectre] // Climate and Collapse //

[John Maher]

 all brilliant but a bit of a rant and an ode to stop shopping
a better response would be found in the Tim Morton / Justin Brice Guariglia installation maxim:
"Don't Eco Shop, Eco Vote [Instead]" to which I would add "Do Eco direct action"

    On Friday, November 2, 2018, 10:00:44 AM EDT, heath bunting <heathbunting at irational.org> wrote:  
 
 as climate change is now an existential threat to all humans
it will become a subject of mass denial

out of those that accept the collapse though, only self sabotaging people
such as artists and those that have a long view will have the potential 
to act and those will be very rare

for example, we all know that using amazon, google and facebook is against
the interest of all people on the planet, including our own, but we still 
use them

buying an item on amazon feeds directly into the cia drone strike program 
in afghanistan, but we continue to buy

we also know that using mobile telephones is an extreme threat to our 
person security, but we all use them

i remember a time when people would boycott corporations because they 
underpaid their staff, now we ignore corporations assassinating people, 
because online shopping is convenient

i invite you all to self sabotage by stop using google, facebook and 
amazon and bin your phones and start the revolt


On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Julian Oliver wrote:

> Dear Spectre,
>
> Posting here a recent interview of French historian Christophe Bonneuil,
> meticulously translated to English by Crystelle Vu:
>
> Thoroughly recommended reading, not only as it deeply implicates the near future
> of Europe itself.
>
> //----------------------------------------------------------------------------->
>
> 'Climate and collapse: Only Through the Insurrection of Civil Societies Will We
> Avoid the Worst'
>
> Are we under the threat of an imminent "collapse" as a result of global warming
> and the over-exploitation of resources? For the historian Christophe Bonneuil,
> there is no question: major social, economic and geopolitical upheavals have
> already been triggered and will only accelerate. Instead, the issue needs to be
> repositioned, in turn inciting "political thinking" of the current situation:
> who will be the winners and the losers? How can we exert an influence on the
> nature of these changes? Mass migrations, risk of conflicts over resources:
> despite his brutal observation of this emerging world, the historian appeals to
> avoid the trap of a "romanticism" of collapse. "Another end of the world is
> possible," he says. It is up to civil societies to write the final scenario.
>
>    https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/
>
> //<-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Globally warm regards,
>
> -- 
> Julian Oliver
> https://julianoliver.com
> https://criticalengineering.org
> PGP https://julianoliver.com/key.asc
> Beware the auto-complete life
>
>
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