I am all for radically changing our society to fight climate change. It’s likely necessary to stave off near-extinction or actual extirpation of humanity. And it’s just a good idea in general. However, I am staunchly and 100% opposed to the progressive “utopia” of living like medieval peasants and all the moralistic and preening performative barmy puritanical fantasias of our sorry fucking excuse for a left.

These two tweets got me thinking about it again:

We can and do so much better than the progressive abstinent false utopia of slurping algae and bugs out of glass bottles while living in 90 square foot pods with a single LED. That will not win the future and no humans will choose to live like that without eco-fascism and then the revolution and giga-deaths that will follow.

To build an alternative to endless extraction and the torching of the planet, real progressives must come up with a superior alternative that inspires hope and human flourishing, not a grim slog through gray days of consuming the bug slurry and wondering when death most welcome will finally come.