This time it won’t just be gaunt young gay men dying in hospital hallways. That would be us. This applies to me, who writes this, and to you who read this. I am 58 years old. When I turn 75, my generation will face a period of death as temperatures soar above 2°C and up to 3°C.
According to a scientific paper, 1 billion people will move. Don’t you think it’s a reasonable prediction that the NHS is becoming ever more ‘overstretched’? There are more corpses in the hallway. our body.
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Here’s what the climate crisis is about: This will harm you. Physically. As someone who has gone on hunger strike twice, I can tell you that not having food to eat is truly painful. Then there is nausea.
And then there is the problem of fascists coming to power. The less said about it the better. Please hand over the car.
The difference between Trump and Harris is that Trump takes you over a cliff with the joy of making America great again, while Harris takes you over a cliff for reasons she never makes clear. Are you surprised that people chose fascism?
“Only the impossible is possible now” was not a clever message to get you to read this article. In fact, all futures are present, impossible.
The impossibility of fascism. It is impossible to create an alternative to Harris. It’s impossible to get people to knock on your door. So what is impossible? What will happen?
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Shestov’s generation had to deal with liberalism’s sick jokes about World War I: the trenches, the body parts, the hapless young men. all. We will face disgusting jokes about liberalism and sleepless nights.
The forgotten thinkers of the dark valley of the interwar years will be back in vogue. And we will learn, as that generation did, that only those who face the world as it is can survive.
But, thank you to those of you who have read this far. People who bury their heads in the sand of their social media silos won’t see the boot hitting their face.
That was Orwell’s image. 1984—What happens if we ignore our moral and political responsibilities? When you can’t unwind on a drizzly Thursday evening, perform your sacred democratic duties, and hear your fellow human beings at your doorstep.
So, as I said, it’s either a knock on the door or death. This is not the old-fashioned door-knocking method. A quick transactional promotion to get out the vote at election time. But if you knock on the door where they will listen, they will talk. And there are many other things that go into making the “impossible” world we want rather than the “impossible” world we don’t want.
More on this in next month’s article. In the meantime, I humbly suggest that you not avoid the dark night of the soul. In the deepest depths of your despair, remember. Only when you go through the burning process of your entitled ego will you be useful in the struggle to come. Only then will you be doing yourself a favor.
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Roger Hallam He is a founding member of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil and an activist for Umbrella. He is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for taking part in an online call discussing climate action on the M25.
