The world is facing a shortage of diesel and jet fuels. I explain how an inadequate supply of these fuels may indirectly bring down central governments.
As an anarchist, I won’t shed any tears for neoliberal states either.
However I believe Gail raises several important points that relevant to us leftists: She effectively discusses material conditions and how economies are hinged on them despite how neoliberal financialization urges us to pretend otherwise, the reality that energy crises will lead to supply chain disruption and starvation even in (cough militarily) developed nations, the potential debt bomb traps that the working class we be expected to compensate for, and other issues that warrant dual power and mutual aid organization in the present moment.
We have to walk a fine line to protect ourselves from propaganda while not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however it appears Gail sources many statements so that we can read more and draw our own conclusions. Of course this is a relatively superficial overview of the specific mechanisms and history involved - it covers quite a range of material in a relatively short format - and it was light on ecological systems, but I didn’t find there to be particularly strong spin or propaganda. The author is more attached to governments while I’m more attached to human lives, but the source of our concern is shared between us.
If some of these concepts are not familiar to any fellow leftists, I encourage you to look them up and to go ahead and try to find leftist sources to see how other people have aligned these issues and data points within their political frameworks. I do not read this particular publication so I cannot to speak of its quality, however I know that there is an author at https://beneaththepavement.substack.com who approaches many of these same topics from an left/anarchist standpoint.
Oh no, not our precious neolib governments :((
As an anarchist, I won’t shed any tears for neoliberal states either.
However I believe Gail raises several important points that relevant to us leftists: She effectively discusses material conditions and how economies are hinged on them despite how neoliberal financialization urges us to pretend otherwise, the reality that energy crises will lead to supply chain disruption and starvation even in (cough militarily) developed nations, the potential debt bomb traps that the working class we be expected to compensate for, and other issues that warrant dual power and mutual aid organization in the present moment.
We have to walk a fine line to protect ourselves from propaganda while not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however it appears Gail sources many statements so that we can read more and draw our own conclusions. Of course this is a relatively superficial overview of the specific mechanisms and history involved - it covers quite a range of material in a relatively short format - and it was light on ecological systems, but I didn’t find there to be particularly strong spin or propaganda. The author is more attached to governments while I’m more attached to human lives, but the source of our concern is shared between us.
If some of these concepts are not familiar to any fellow leftists, I encourage you to look them up and to go ahead and try to find leftist sources to see how other people have aligned these issues and data points within their political frameworks. I do not read this particular publication so I cannot to speak of its quality, however I know that there is an author at https://beneaththepavement.substack.com who approaches many of these same topics from an left/anarchist standpoint.