I find it fascinating, the escalation of chaos that this year has brought to the American people (really all people but we are particularly damned it seems). In everything presented in the book thus far, Klein's points are only amplified by our country's current status. "Wild West economics is failing the vast majority of people around the world" (83); this is more true now than ever. With a record breaking unemployment rate, grocery stores constantly having shortages of goods, record numbers of evictions, we are seeing our country fail us before our eyes. Helping the planet, as Klein says, is completely antithetical to current capitalism. Corporations will continue to preach that things will be "made right", while 50,000 people were evacuated due to wildfires in California yesterday. The escalation of the climate crisis, on top of a pandemic has caused a world of issues for the Western world. As climate deniers have been saying, as well as Klein supporting the sentiment, climate change can only be approached in an entire new take on our economic and social structure.
Rosa Luxenburg said "Socialism or Barbarism". I am inclined to agree with this, as it seems Klein is as well. Especially in a time where billionaires collect more billions by the day, we are not in a place to discuss simple regulations or limits on corporate greed. We must eliminate corporations all together. We can either allow people the right to live without slave labor, or we can continue to fall deeper into our own demise.
Weekly points
10/27- Essay, Comment on questions, comment on Patrick's post :p
When the torch is finally passed to your generation I think we'll see if (in Klein's eponymous words) "this changes everything"...
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