Replacing oil and coal industries with ‘sustainable’ industries, themselves built on the exploitation of labor and the mining of rare-earth elements, but never questioning the existence of industry itself. Climate change itself has become an industry, built on privileged activism and good consciences. Hope and morality have been turned into products to be sold for profit. Green capitalism and rainbow capitalism are proof of the system’s incredible, self-directed adaptability. And they certainly will not be convinced by a few peacefully protesting single-issue activists. Those who have the power to effect genuine and lasting change will never do so of their own volition. But there is no reasoning with a self-enforcing, self-developing, adapting, all-encompassing, uncaring ideology. Most climate activists do not want to fight the system they want to change and bend it to reason. Extinction Rebellion, in particular, have been known to actively collaborate with law enforcement, on occasion applauding their oppressors and the system they supposedly reject, actively seeking to be arrested, and even taking pride in it.

I’m trying,” they seem to scream as they block roads, drawing the anger of the very working-class people they are trying to convince, or arrange pre-approved and police-sanctioned protests. Some anti-establishment struggles have become entwined with capitalism, strengthening rather than eroding it.Įxtinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, Just Stop Oil, and similar movements serve mainly as a platform for privileged white people to justify their capitalist lifestyles to themselves.

Capitalist realism