A Term Like Capitalism Is Incredibly Slippery,

My Favorite Sign Here Says, "i Care About You." In A Culture That Trains People To Avoid Each Other's Gaze, To Say, "let Them Die," That Is A Deeply Radical Statement.

So We Are Left With A Stark Choice: Allow Climate Disruption To Change Everything About Our World, Or Change Pretty Much Everything About Our Economy To Avoid That Fate. But We Need To Be Very Clear: Because Of Our Decades Of Collective Denial, No Gradual, Incremental Options Are Now Available To Us.

One Of The Most Disturbing Ways That Climate Change Is Already Playing Out Is Through What Ecologists Call "mismatch" Or "mistiming." This Is The Process Whereby Warming Causes Animals To Fall Out Of Step With A Critical Food Source, Particularly At Breeding Times, When A Failure To Find Enough Food Can Lead To Rapid Population Losses.

Either Greed Belongs In A War Zone, Or It Doesn't. You Can't Unleash It In The Name Of Sparking An Economic Boom And Then Be Shocked When Halliburton Overcharges For Everything From Towels To Gas, When Parsons' Sub, Sub, Sub-contractor Builds A Police Academy Where The Pipes Drip Raw Sewage On The Heads Of Army Cadets And Where Blackwater Investigates Itself And Finds It Acted Honorably. That's Just Corporations Doing What They Do And Iraq Is A Privatized War Zone So That's What You Get. Build A Frontier, You Get Cowboys And Robber Barons.

We Live In This Culture Of Endless Extraction And Disposal: Extraction From The Earth, Extraction From People's Bodies, From Communities, As If There's No Limit, As If There's No Consequence To How We're Taking And Disposing, And As If It Can Go On Endlessly. We Are Reaching The Breaking Point On Multiple Levels. Communities Are Breaking, The Planet Is Breaking, People's Bodies Are Breaking. We Are Taking Too Much.