Corporate greenwashing is becoming so widespread that even Fortune Magazine is forced to crinkle its nose.
Coming in from another angle, the BBC notes: the “World’s wealthiest at heart of climate problem”. The data:
Your 20X great-grandfather got into the System of civilization to make a better life for you, but a few thousand years downstream, the lifestyles of the rich and famous are literally a threat to the lives of your heirs. Do you still envy them?
Capitalism is specifically inimical to democracy.
Inequality literally kills, and by more than one mechanism.
Overthrowing the billionaire class would be, if we ever did it, precisely an act of self-defense, and also a defense of the innocent. Polar bears and other charismatic megafauna. Human babies. Maybe yours.
The police aren’t there to protect you. In the end they’re there to make sure that if you do defend yourself, they can stand on the other side and shoot you down or arrest you.
Meanwhile, in the words of Justin Jackson, NFL running back and young black man, “all the shitlibs are back at brunch”. Biden won, so everyone can relax now, right? Why not?