https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/climate-change-the-bigger-picture/

I have always been concerned that ‘climate change’ is, while an almost certainly real situation… a kind of distraction or red-herring, given the fact that our supercultures are dead-set determined to wipe out the anciently conserved ecologies upon which life on earth and our human survival depend.

This is a very deadly situation, because it’s like an addiction. You can’t really tell, yet, that you’ve ‘already killed yourself’ because you’re so busy getting drunk or whatever that the awareness within you that might otherwise notice signs of impending doom is already totally compromised.

Once humans become aware of the actual situation en-masse, it will be far too late to do much about it. And our supercultures don’t even have organs of awareness… at all… they are like machines. Every time we run another cycle… a minute, an hour, a day, a month… they obliterate a vast array of living contexts and beings. It’s like selling our own organs to acquire drugs or useless little nonsense objects.

The supercultures we participate in (and comprise, actually) »cannot change any more than your car (or collection of them) can suddenly become a horse. They were forged to see nature as a disposable commodity — an array of transformable ‘resources’. But the living beings and places that comprise our world are no more commodities than your own lungs or eyes. And as they are omnicidally obliterated, we are … all of us … becoming more blind and less capable of responding meaningfully. I say this due to the fact that, fundamentally, the world is a biorelational hypersystem: damage done anywhere must (instantly) land everywhere… however undetectable small amounts of it may be.

So I am worried. Global warming is a phenomenon I believe to be actually happening and related to specific human activities. And it’s extremely dangerous. But the problem isn’t climate change; it’s wholesale omnicide and the catastrophic toxicification of the environment. That’s the thing we need to be talking about, and that thing is an absolutely demonstrable fact. There’s no possibility of ‘disbelieving’ it any more than one can disbelieve that someone murdered a person who is found stabbed to death.

I’m not the only person who is aware of this. But we need to begin speaking clear and devastating truths about these issues. We need the numbers, the facts, and the predictions. And we must develop the capacity to respond in ways that actually affect the situation, rather than simply popularize some fucking argument for the sake of some media organization making cash from it, or people flaming each other on social media because they haven’t yet been directly presented with an opportunity meaningful enough to awaken whatever humanity may yet slumber within them.