RE: Extinction or Evolution: Rise Of A Global Warmth.
Yeah, I think probably 2 more generations will have a global civilization. After that I fear that we will really start feeling the decline.
There is this haunting work by an anon anarchist called,"The Desert" that goes into why this is the case.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
That's the link to it if anyone is interested.
the great extinction is what really worries me, and the trend is going away from ecological sensibility. In my view, capitalism, is incompatible with ecological programs.
I'd also like to point out the Co2 emissions are only part of the equation if you really want to talk about the eco-crisis. Deforestation is one concern. The destruction of the top soil by industrial farm Technics as well as others I am probably ignorant of.
To quote the eco-anarchist and social ecologist Murray Bookchin,"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human."
The reason this is, is because we dominate each other(politically, economically and so on and so on) so think we have the ability to dominate nature. Hence our coincided notion that we have conquered nature. We haven't because we can't.
So, with this in mind, I honestly think that the future is much bleaker then main stream people think.
In my view it's 30 years to late to not have massive destruction of the environment due to human interference with the biosphere.
So what can we do?
Well at this point really all we can do is mitigate the suffering of humanity from the eco-crisis.
That should be the goal at this point, because the hour is much later then anyone likes to admit.
Well said...although your estimation of how sooner we might destroy ourselves by the social-cultural struggle for dominance seems to supersede the possibility of extinction from eco-crisis. I admire your bluntness and in truth, the future seems bleaker when we look at it through a telescope covered with carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases. If I may ask, on your profile, you described yourself as "a left anarchist", what does that mean?
Left anarchism in a broad stroke considers that hierarchy is the social question and that domination is an expression of hierarchy.
The first ever ecologist, Murray Bookchin, was a left anarchist. He was the first person to consider having and economy based on wind turbines and solar panels(in his book,"our toxic environment") and founder of the institute for social ecology.
To put it more exactly, what I promote is a federated system of neighborhood assemblies that plan the economy by directly democratic means. Also know as libertarian municipalism. Informed by Bookchins ideas of social ecology and dialectical naturalism. Which is an Economic model known as Communalism.
so plan production around concern for the environment as well as social need(and want I guess)
There is a real world working example of this in Syria known as Rojava.
Left anarchism was the first anarchism actually. All the Anarcho-capitalists you see on this website are a-historical. So we had to add the "left" part to express that we're anti-capitalists.
It's also know as Libertarian Socialism, but you say socialism and people think you mean a system like the USSR, so I go with left anarchist.
Alright. But if I am to go with your definition of left anarchism, then everyone should be one because of the concept of society revolve around hierarchy and domination. Hierarchy is, in fact, a trait found in all forms of society, however subtle it may appear.
The end of hierarchy is more of a long term goal, then one to be accomplished immediately. In my view as it stands today.
Just like the Marxist concept of a classless, stateless and money-less society was a long term end goal.
Same thing here.
I agree, Hierarchy exists in every facet of life. This is why left anarchism is considered a revolutionary concept. It seeks to change a huge factor in our current system.
It exists in the nuclear family, it exists in our political bodies, it exists in our economic structures.
The first step is to organize in web like structures instead of pyramid type structures.
Like for a neighborhood, you organize a general assembly, instead of a home owners association.
Make sense?
Yeah..but i do not agree completely with the idea of classifying hierarchy or democracy as anarchism. Nonetheless, let me take some time to ruminate on the issue.
That's what the historical anarchist movement has always been defined as. Well except proudhon, and goldman they weren't really too fond of democracy.
But yeah, think about it, get back to me.