There Is a Way Through This

The Year Ahead in 2025

There is a way through this. But we have to remember who actually cares for us, and who is responsible, who we can trust, and who is trying to profit off of false solutions.

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We are hurting. We are afraid. Some are finally realizing, the apocalypse is here, and it's coming for us.

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There's no excuse for ignoring the cause of this. It's capitalism, a system born of slavery and colonialism, a system that causes ecocide wherever it goes, a system of unending growth on a finite planet.

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It's government, the State, a machine for war-making, a purveyor of genocide, builder of borders, the vehicle without which colonialism would never exist, the false hope that betrays revolutions and turns socialism right back into capitalism.

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It's rich people, CEOs, bankers, investors, those who hoard far more than they need in a world of misery and suffering, of scarcity that they impose.

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It's the IPCC and the NGOs, the media, and the astroturf movements like XR that take the mainstream climate framework seriously, that pressure for more government regulations and more green energy investment, ignoring the gap between promises and reality, projections and results.

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It's those who pretend to be on the side of life when they're really on the payroll. It's anyone who hides the fact that carbon emissions are still going up every year, and everything the State and capitalism do to sell solutions only makes it worse.

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But there is a way through this.

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Look around you. Know that it's your friends and neighbors and total strangers who will save your life if a hurricane or wildfire rips through your neighborhood.

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It's the cops and soldiers who will shoot at you if you engage in “looting” to feed yourself or your children because you care about life and they care about power.

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It's the NGOs, professional activists, politicians, and institutional researchers who are on the payroll, who will continue to sell false solutions even when their neighbors' houses are on fire.

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Know who to trust. And then look deeper. Look farther. There are realistic responses to this apocalypse that are already being put into practice. There are methods and projects and struggles that are based in reality, that prioritize our survival. They need your support.

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And those who profit off of misery and lies? Not one ounce more of attention, of validation, of trust.

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Spread this: no one is safe as long as those who rule us continue to own the future.

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Spread this: there are paths towards futures we can survive.

To find those paths, we need to give up any remaining trust in the dominant institutions of this society, and build our trust back with the fighters, the healers, the connectors, the gardeners, the builders who truly believe in another world.