This piece contains quite a good canvassing of the current socialist political climate, but it appears lacking in discussion of Climate Change and it’s relation

This piece contains quite a good canvassing of the current socialist political climate, but it appears lacking in discussion of Climate Change and it’s relationship with a revival of anti-capitalist movement. I have a lot of problems with Capitalism theoretically, but in practical terms it’s most unquestionable error is in the role it played in decades of Climate Change inaction and ecological destruction. Foster Wallace decried the existential emptiness of capitalist consumer society, and yeah that sucks, but if left alone by activists Capitalist systems would quite possibly destroy the entire planet or if we’re lucky only kill hundreds of millions of people who had no part real part in the system’s insatiability. Some left thinkers I respect a lot are saying we might be choosing between socialism and ‘climate justice’ for the third world, or eco-fascism. With Facebook recently installing Breitbart in their ‘quality news’ section, I’m not happy just fence-sitting and letting capitalists reorganise society in response to our climate emergency.