'scientists shove green tech at capitalists hard enough that the cost hopefully goes down enough for them to begrudgingly adopt it before we're all swimming'
people are already seeing biden continuing trump era policies and sitting back and going "he's not trump, we did it" so 2020 not being a factor at all is mostly just because a fair amount of people were mad about the mouth the message came from rather than the message
the problem with getting people to care about the message is that half the country is controlled by a group that turned language into a game for exchanging power instead of a method of communicating ideas, and that doing that is REALLY effective at getting and keeping power
so if the left says 'the planet is dying' then the right says 'everyone who says 'the planet is dying' wants us to LOSE, so you have to disagree with them on principle'
i do think there is probably a breaking point but that it's much, much farther down the hole than anyone expects, and there's no sense in trying to predict what and when it will be. so like....if we can turn things around before we hit that breaking point, that's probably best.
but idk. i struggle with this kind of hopelessness a lot too.
i try to take some comfort in the facts of things like: - "get money out of politics" (ie reversing Citizens United) is an extremely popular bipartisan issue that something like 90% of all voters support and would be an instant game-changer if we could make it happen - a lot of shitty republicans are so scared of their own party that they're retiring soon
- democrats are starting to learn that they need to at least pay lip service to progressive ideas, because they realized they can't afford to lose our votes, which also means that these ideas are being slowly mainstreamed to the general public too
Dialectically, a breaking point is whenever the strength of the working class (or whatever social forces you deem able to drive change) will mobilized to stage a successful uprising. Now the issue is that this social forces is very disorganized, much more so than 1930s. Therefore capitalism gets away with much worse crimes than in other periods.
I just hope they die soon enough.
but idk. i struggle with this kind of hopelessness a lot too.
- "get money out of politics" (ie reversing Citizens United) is an extremely popular bipartisan issue that something like 90% of all voters support and would be an instant game-changer if we could make it happen
- a lot of shitty republicans are so scared of their own party that they're retiring soon