few things have battered my faith in the US and the west in general like the institutional response to climate science. we have known for decades that a transition is required, but not only that: that the transition would not be some descent into drudgery and discomfort. that it could improve our day to day lives, increase comfort and convenience. we had the resources to make the transition smoothly.
the problem is it would marginally decrease the political power and wealth of the already powerful elite minority, so instead we're going to commit to the path that social murders billions of people and trillions of organisms we share this planet with. it's so banal, lazy, and cruel.
much of my hope for the future comes from the PRC's attempt to build socialism and hopefully drag the remnants of this shitty empire and its vassals into a better world.
perspective; the latter half of the book focuses mainly on his individual efforts to reduce his own family's carbon footprint through urban homesteading and running a car on vegetable oil. There's a chapter toward the end about efforts to build community, but the organizations he mentions by name appear to have gone defunct (or at least ended their online engagement) during Covid.