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Anything we can do to fight climate change without a state, Iām all for. Keep up the good work. Iām not saying to throw anything out of our existing toolbox.
What are some meaningful interventions that a state or international organization like the UN can do more easily than we can do on our own?
If you can do any of those things (at least partially) without being a government, go ahead (and I wanna join you). I believe states can do it more easily. Thatās all.
If the counterargument to what Iām saying is that the state is unlikely to do any of those things, well, Iām right there with you.
Thatās like 99% of what I write about here, about how the politicians suck and how media sucks and how nothing is getting done.
But unlikely is less bad than impossible as far as Iām concerned.
Again, no-one is saying āhold off on action until weāve unbroke the stateā. If you can do action, do action.
Iām trying to think of ways to fix media, Iām trying to think of ways to fix politics, Iām trying to think of ways we can do those necessary things without media or politics. Iām trying to think of any route. Suggestions super welcome because no one person is gonna figure this out on her own.
Loyalty to an ideological flag such as the olā black&red, I can not afford when itās climate knocking on the door. Especially when its toolbox, like federation and federalism, seem unusually poorly suited to address a problem where local freedom (such as āthe freedom to polluteā) has global fallout. A factory in Wisconsin can make it so that Stockholm doesnāt have drinking water.
That anarchist ideology and toolbox can still be awesome for the class struggle which we're gonna do in parallel, and (if necessary) after, saving the Earth.
Also, the US isnāt the entire planet. I know that the GOP and the US coal lobby impacts the planet greatly. But American failures doesnāt have to mean the end of things like the EU and the UN.
One reason why Iām writing is to hold politicans responsible and encourage them to act.
Iāve mentioned the blame triangle many times. Corporate, politics, populace: all are passing the buck. Every time I mention this triangle, Iām saying please stop, to all three, whichever of the three roles applies to you; as a citizen, you can make changes to your life, and the corporate world certainly has the most to answer for. But politicians have a unique role in how they can legislate the other two.
Now all yāall who are anonymous on the internet can write about your tire-flattening, road-gluing shenanigans or whatever youāre up to. Thatās great!
Iām not arguing against a solution, Iām not trying to stop a salvation. Iām arguing for a solution, for a practical route forward. If you can do other good stuff in parallel or even instead, thatās just awesome!
So if itāsā¦
1. Ban fossils (with (and without) the help of the state)
2. Enjoy your new fossil-free planet
vs
1. Smash the state (and finally succeed after 130 years of trying)
2. ?????
3. Fossils still gonna be aroundā¦?
Iām not super into that second option there.
Iāve been nerding out on anarchism stuff for decades but never seen them address pollution externalities. And Iām ready to be surprised. The Street Performer Protocol was an anarchist solution to funding free culture without copyright externalites, and it ushered in crowdfunding and changed the economic landscape. So I havenāt stopped listening.
Itās justā¦ There are some religions where they donāt allow blood transfusion so they come up with these cockamamie alternative ways to do surgery which are much worse and riskier and canāt fit every use case. The human mind can contort itself like that. We fall so in love with one expression of an idea that we wreck everything around us to hammer that square peg in. Thatās why I wanna get my number one priority straight: save the Earth!
āBut what about extra-parliamentary, direct action?ā Iām all for āem!