It is clear that humanity will not be allowed to get in the way of corporate profits.

It is also clear that people who believe that corporations are just a collection of humans and only that understand very little about the world. After all, a human is only a collection of single cells – and yet these same people would not claim that a human is the same as a spirochete or a jellyfish.

Reasoning by analogy is always dangerous, even when it is correct. Perhaps particularly when it is correct.

There is probably nothing to be done, anyway. Oligarchs will not surrender power. Climate change is unstoppable. Environmental degradation is continuing apace.

When change occurs, it will occur quickly – also despite popular belief.

I no longer align with the left or the right as dangerous and unshakeable illusions are firmly established in both camps, and are implicit in the very ordering of their belief systems.

I align with the data and with the truth, and revise my views avidly and quickly as new evidence arises, at least as much as any human can.