This is why every time someone mentions climate tipping points, I try to make the argument that the only tipping point that matters happened circa 1980.
That is when Reagan (government is the problem, not the solution) and Thatcher (there is no such thing as society, only the individual) came to power and started aggressively dismantling those public institutions and programs that were necessary to keeping intact the people’s power over the corporation. The program they and their cohort started has continued unabated for 40 years.
Never forget that every business, large or small, traded on a stock exchange or not, is organized as a totalitarian dictatorship, with power and wealth accruing to those at the top and their favoured few. Allowing that mentality into the halls of government has been, unsurprisingly, a destructive force, not a constructive, protective, or restorative one.
This is why every time someone mentions climate tipping points, I try to make the argument that the only tipping point that matters happened circa 1980.
That is when Reagan (government is the problem, not the solution) and Thatcher (there is no such thing as society, only the individual) came to power and started aggressively dismantling those public institutions and programs that were necessary to keeping intact the people’s power over the corporation. The program they and their cohort started has continued unabated for 40 years.
Never forget that every business, large or small, traded on a stock exchange or not, is organized as a totalitarian dictatorship, with power and wealth accruing to those at the top and their favoured few. Allowing that mentality into the halls of government has been, unsurprisingly, a destructive force, not a constructive, protective, or restorative one.
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