Re: <nettime> Biocultural Corridors

[Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@autistici.org>]

Le 19/08/2022 à 04:02, Brian Holmes a écrit :

Thank you for the action, the story, the software.


> The big question is this: Do the middle classes - including industrial 
> workers attached to states and large corporations - go fascist under the 
> pressure of rising threats to their old lifestyles and identities, or 
> can we find shareable biocultural pathways toward reparative 
> socio-ecological worlds, and through collaboration with other classes 
> and cultures and races, create neo-ecosystems that can ramp down the 
> causes and mitigate the effects of climate change?

It's not a matter of social class, culture or race, but of scale.

It is too late* to create sufficiently influential neo-ecosystems on a 
global scale.  The globalized capitalist system that extracts resources 
on one side of the world, refines and assembles them elsewhere, and then 
markets them everywhere is not reformable in its current structure.

The various eco-fascisms that will be the last manifestations of current 
capitalism, as they have been predicted and discussed since the 1970s, 
are temporary. They cannot survive in a meta scale, because of the 
scarcity of "control" ressources, disorganisation of media, 
communication and armed power.

But we can create neo-ecosystems at local scale, even during continental 
or national eco-fascisms. As you can see in South America, as I can see 
in Europe, this movement has started silently, worlwide, around 
low-tech, open-source structures, planifyied ressource harvesting et 
recycling, and small-scale real democracy. In rural areas, mostly.

The attraction of the middle classes for an eco-fascist management of 
the collapse is temporary, as their dependence on globalisation and 
high-tech makes their class fragile. But but their nuisance power is 
great, they can be a trigger for armed unrest in US.

The potential for connection and exchange between small, resilient 
communities will be rapid in terms of exchange of goods or services, but 
will take longer to gain political traction on a more macroscopic scale.


JN


* Climate scientists have been warning for years that the next thirty or 
more years of climate degradation are already written, because of the 
long persistence of CO2 in the atmosphere. We are now suffering from 70 
years of crazy fossil fuel use. What we are fighting for today is the 
mitigation of the effects of climate collapse in the second half of the 
22nd century, i.e. for our grandchildren and their descendants, during a 
profound climate chaos.

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