While the environmental movements are becoming ever more radical, in the face of
ever less convincing and wait-and-see responses from governments, whichnevertheless pretend to multiply forces for a transition that should reconcilethe needs of capital with those of the environment (in short , squaring thecircle), a new revolution is taking place in the secret button rooms ofinternational capitalism: the technocratic one. ---- The signals are not lacking.Recently, one of the pioneers of geoengineering, the American climatologist and"environmentalist" in his own way, David Keith, author of an international bestseller with the captivating title The Rational Alternative, relaunched theproject - which he now claims is perfectly feasible - to shield the skies byinjecting drops of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere, thus preventing the sun'srays from heating the planet. Don't worry: the process it would trigger will bereversible in about forty years! Is time, these days - excuse the oxymoron - adancer? Don't worry: we will intercept the clouds, we will move them elsewhere(on those non-Western countries that do not have our own technologicalcapabilities to reject them) and we will live peacefully in a world pacified(!!!) not by wars but by our technological power.Does the Po Valley no longer receive the water it once did and are there the riskof long periods of drought and famine? Here too the solution has been found.Desalinators along the coasts, as foreseen in a recent plan by the Melonigovernment, every now and then of kilometres. What do we care about the landscapeand environmental damage, the accumulation of salts and mineral waste, etc. Newproblems will be met with new technologies, in an endless spiral. The importantthing is to have - even if it will still take a few decades - enough water tolive on. In the meantime, hope for some good flooding, which will in the meantimebe faced with other mega-installations, Mose-type sluice gates, canals, skiwaxes, etc. Progress in the water field is advancing: we have seen it in recentdays in Romagna.A drug multinational triumphantly declares that some tumors (only some at themoment, but all of them in the future! Even the new generation ones) will soon beable to be treated with the negative RNA system (that of the anti-Covid vaccine).Only recommendation: try to feel good until this is really possible!And we could continue with the examples: from the nth generation of nuclearpower, to hydrogen energy, from artificial forests to the cultivation of deserts,from synthetic meat to powdered food (remember the now ancient utopia, introducedby the American astronauts, that was supposed to feed the world?)The paradox is that even among geoengineers Keith's "environmentalists" aregrowing, i.e. those who do not attribute thaumaturgical qualities totechnologies, highlighting the risks for human health and the planet - whichwould not be of little importance -, considering them " the least worst" waitingfor naturalistic or re-naturalistic turning points that they recommend for thefuture.And here the donkey falls. To think that governments and large multinationals,which are now entrusted with expensive, centralized, authoritarian, "strategic"and therefore militarized, highly engineered interventions, want to give up thenew possibilities for expanding their domain, is frankly nonsense. The directiontaken is rather that of the great "capitalist utopia" which finds the mostserious obstacle to its expansion in natural environments (including humannature). The "rational" alternative therefore consists in giving it more time tobe able to improve already very invasive engineering technologies and impose themon recalcitrant populations with carrots and sticks, on the one hand militarizingentire territories on the other transforming life on earth into sophisticatedtechnological goods , made attractive, finally tamed. In the background theperpetuation of injustices and lack of freedom.In the face of such and many aberrations, our goal cannot be reduced to reducingharmful emissions and solving climate crises with the tools of technologysubservient to the interests of capital, but must tend with even greaterawareness to radically change the social organization: occupy and dismantle themega-plants, the useless and invasive mega-works, definitively reject fossilenergy (starting from LPG which the Italian government considers "strategic"given that it is currently 30% cheaper than electricity!) , beat to the clock anyfurther devastation of the territories and any geo and bio-engineeringmanipulation potentially harmful to life and health, using and enhancing meansthat new technologies (those that can take possession of local communities) canalso help to create.Never, as in this historical phase, have environmental protection and theharmonious development of life been linked to each other and to an intransigentvision of political and social change.Musarra Christmashttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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