Getting rid of plastic is good but straws were very possibly the dumbest place to start, on so many fronts. https://t.co/hp91nwlcMQ

— Bob Plankers (@plankers) July 2, 2019

There’s a reason I bought roughly a thousand plastic straws recently. Have to do something to battle against useless doofus incursions.

Current corporate and political climate change and environmental strategy is a very intelligent one, overall. It’s a version of denialism, really, and that is to prioritize small changes that really make no difference at all, to value the centrist view, the “reasonable.” Meanwhile, the true reasonable in the face of such a vast threat is to be running at full war footing, Apollo program x 10, to adapt, mitigate and even to reverse climate change with a combination of the known and trusted with some smaller part of that portfolio consisting of crazy plans that also might work.

I draw very little distinction at all between outright, classical denialism of the Republican variety and that of the Drum/Scalzi variety. Both will result in little difference in the end, and aren’t actually that far apart other than as a matter of ideological aesthetics.

We occupants of the last few hundred years of capitalist dominance, who know nothing else, can think nothing else, will all be lumped together in our varieties in the judgment of history, a menagerie of debased humanity: Republicans, liberals, Nazis, Democrats, Socialists, populists, theocrats, authoritarians and libertarians alike — all those of the generations who poisoned the planet, who despised their own children and grandchildren so much that they were perfectly willing to literally kill them.

We’ll all look the same in the judgement of history, and that judgment will be correct.