Extinction and Rebellion

“Imagine living under a calculated, meticulous system dedicated to and dependent on your oppression and being surrounded by that system’s hysterical, brainwashed guardians”,

writes Mary Annaïse Heglar. It sounds like the capitalist system we now find ourselves in: climate change threathening all life on earth, politicians actively facilitating destruction, everyone unwillingly or willingly strenghtening the ‘carbon lock- in’ we find ourselves in, the future unsure. But it is not a description of today, it is a description of living under slavery as a black person. The climate crisis is…