The Climate and Ecological Crisis - An Oppurtunity

Nature's clock has struck twelve, ominous chimes resounding through a godless night..

History is replete with violence, oppression and colonisation. Now is the time for total solidarity and inclusion, the fight for nature is the fight for all groups.

All forms of oppression are interconnected and derive from the same toxic mentality. The oppression of nature is the oppression of humanity and life on Earth. Due to this oppression, we are in the midst of a human-wrought mass extinction event. Repeat, we are in the midst of a human-wrought mass extinction event.

During history, there have also been times of meaning and love. The climate and ecological crisis presents an opportunity to overcome the atrocities of history and transform our societies, and our identities, into something beautiful and worth living for. This transformation is alchemical, for in the darkest moment, from the basest material, something positive and unimaginable could be forged.

Industrial, neoliberal society is profoundly disconnected from nature. This society lacks community and meaning and our well-being greatly suffers for this. This society is sustaining itself by exploiting nature and poor people, breaking point is near.

Corporations and a small amount of individuals hold the majority of the world's wealth. Indigenous people are brutally assassinated by hired killers, an estimated 3-4 per week in 2018, for defending their communities and lands from corporations. Indian cotton farmers are committing suicide in high numbers, an estimated 1 every 30 minutes in recent years, due to toxic, corporate practices. Coral reefs are vanishing before our eyes, due to rising global temperatures. Industrial fishing is destroying the health of our oceans and stripping away the livelihoods of small-scale fishermen. Our great forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Droughts, wildfires, floods, crop failures and air pollution are killing people and wildlife around the world, at increasingly high rates. Even conservative scientists are predicting a future for humanity and life on Earth that will be catastrophic, due to climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.

Echoing throughout history, among the ominous midnight chimes, are the names of indigenous land-defenders, colonised communities, extinct animal species and all who've been oppressed.

To honour their names is to honour who we are.