While their fear and dismay is often regarded as rooted in delusion, rightwingers are correct that the world is metamorphosing into something new and, to them, abhorrent. In 2018, halfway through the Trump presidency, Michelle Alexander wrote a powerful essay arguing that we are not the resistance. White people are not being replaced, but in many ways a white supremacist history and society is. Climate change is first of all a crisis, but it’s also a reminder that the world is a collection of interlocking systems. There is no guarantee about what is to come, and the shadow of climate chaos hangs over it all.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2021 04:36 UTC