Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance

I think we have to differentiate between the demands of many environmentalists and the reforms we have been accustomed to opposing in the past.

Some activists (the paramedics on the scene) realise the planet is close to death and needs urgent treatment to save it.

So do we discourage them applying emergency first-aid to the patient so that the planet survives for a little bit longer in the hope that it gets to a hospital (socialism) for a full medical intervention to start the life-saving surgery and treatment and cure?

Do we accept the need for the first-aid to keep the planet alive until we can provide the ambulance (revolution)  to take the patient to the hospital?

A poor analogy I grant you but I think it brings out our dilemma.

Socialists don’t want our world to be DOA, dead on arrival.

The pessimists among us contemplate a scenario that even if we get socialism, the climate crisis has reached the point of no return, those runaway tipping points that places civilization itself at risk have arrived and instead of a healthy world of plenty, we are not the hospital but rather the hospice administering palliative care to a dying planet.