Extreme Violence Has A Way

Real Climate Solutions Are Ones That Steer These Interventions To Systematically Disperse And Devolve Power And Control To The Community Level, Whether Through Community-controlled Renewable Energy, Local Organic Agriculture Or Transit Systems Genuinely Accountable To Their Users.

The Fact That Trump's Refused To Divest From His Labyrinth Of Business Holdings, The Fact That He's Continuing To Profit From His Brand And Indeed Create All Kinds Of New Opportunities To Profit Off The Presidency Is Outrageous. The Flip Side Is That He's Left Out A Lot Of Levers Through Which To Pressure Him. You Know, The Reason You Want A President To Divest From His Business Holdings Is That Foreign Governments Can Try To Exert Pressure On Him By Becoming Customers Of These Hotels And Inflating The Value Of How Much They're Willing To Pay For A Trump Brand.

And Most Of All, It Means Continually Drawing Connections Among These Seemingly Disparate Struggles—asserting, For Instance, That The Logic That Would Cut Pensions, Food Stamps, And Health Care Before Increasing Taxes On The Rich Is The Same Logic That Would Blast The Bedrock Of The Earth To Get The Last Vapors Of Gas And The Last Drops Of Oil Before Making The Shift To Renewable Energy.

So If The Meaning Of The Trump Brand Is Being The Ultimate Boss Who Has The Power Because He's So Rich, The Way You Undermine That Brand Is By Making Him Look Like A Puppet, And By Showing That While He's Playing Gold And Admiring His Properties, It's Actually Other People Making The Key Decisions And He Doesn't Really Know What's Going On.

In A World Where Profit Is Consistently Put Before Both People And The Planet, Climate Economics Has Everything To Do With Ethics And Morality.