A LIE UNEXPECTEDLY BECOMING TRUTH

Unless we start radical change of our outlook on nature and indeed our whole economy, we are now headed straight for that very place where the fossil-fuel billionaires with their Stetsons and their handcrafted cowboy boots warned us for a half-century we’d be going if we ‘greened’ our way of life: back to a few pitiful clans having to walk two miles for water and having to cut wood for fires to cook and stay warm. Cooling off? Apart from the nearest body of water, fuggedaboudit!
We’re headed that way because of our own inaction, true, but those same fossil-fuel billionaires and their boughten political slaves are the ones mostly responsible for that inaction. And a too-large number of us have been adamantly unwilling to tolerate a bare minimum of inconvenience, like the spoiled brats they are!
And together with those already obscenely rich individuals who put nothing above more and higher profits for themselves (pretty much alone) they are the people who have kept the rest of us on this road to real perdition.
‘Radical change’ is now what is urgently necessary to keep our discomfort with the necessary changes to a minimum and to keep living standards for most of us from plunging abruptly.
And an unlooked-for benefit of such change will probably be the narrowing of inequality and the democratizing of our economies. (Maybe that’s another reason why the obscenely rich fight this. They want worldwide neo-feudalism buttressed by propped-up theocracy)
For one thing, the regeneration, aka the ‘greening’ (re-greening?) of our planet will produce tens of millions of jobs, which, if…