Electing The Climate Crisis

Between brazen environmental Christofascism or the Machiavellian veneer of an eco-friendly face lift

I was asked to give a statement about the election as it relates to issues related to the climate the climate to a prominent environmental publication in the days after the election results. Since it does not appear that they are going to use my statement, I thought that I might share them here in hopes that my words do not go to waste.

You can read my full statement below.

"While both wings of the American political sphere claim to operate from a different set of values regarding the environment, both continue to spread the myths of limitless extraction and consumption, leaving the structural forces responsible for Ecological Overshoot not only unchallenged, but concretized.

While Trump’s climate policies are worse relative to Harris’s, the truth is that no matter how draconian Trump’s stance on climate change may be, Harris’s policies would have failed to do little more than serve as a fresh coat of green paint on the structures that are driving the climate crisis. Nothing about the outcome of this election would have changed the reality that we will not meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. In the end, regardless of the election outcome, capitalism and colonialism were slated to press onward unabated and uninhibited by way of destructive policies in the form of brazen environmental Christofascism or the Machiavellian veneer of an eco-friendly face lift.

For individuals, and organizations like ours (Jubilee House), the fight to build resilient communities capable of weathering the ever-worsening conditions of environmental collapse and healing our bioregions remains and would have remained even if our country had not chosen brazen environmental Christofascism on November 5th. Now more than ever we must adopt tactics of adaptation and escalation that ensure our survival through direct action, solidarity, and a rootedness in our bioregions capable of helping our communities understand that a different world has always been worth fighting for."