War we know.\u00a0 We are comfortable with it:
\nkill or be killed, what could be simpler?
\nRelax into thoughtless endocrine storm
\nand enjoy the absence of choice.<\/p>\n
Politics are harder.\u00a0 \u00a0Choosing between contradictions
\nand accepting heartbreaking compromises
\nis too stressful.\u00a0 We’d rather make it like war,
\ndemonize the Other and win at all costs.<\/p>\n
Now we must face the cruelest test of all:
\ndealing with the physical consequences
\nof our addiction to comfort, convenience and profit.
\nNature cannot be bought off by lobbyists.<\/p>\n
We could easily save ourselves
\nif we could only make climate change a war,
\nidentify The Enemy and plan its annihilation…
\nbut wait, we’ve done that already!<\/p>\n
How can we make war on destruction?
\nHow can cooperation satisfy our bloodlust?
\nHow can we all be on the same side?
\nHow can we be what we’ve never been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
War we know.\u00a0 We are comfortable with it: kill or be killed, what could be simpler? Relax into thoughtless endocrine storm and enjoy the absence of choice. Politics are harder.\u00a0 \u00a0Choosing between contradictions and accepting heartbreaking compromises is too stressful.\u00a0 We’d rather make it like war, demonize the Other andRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry","category-rants"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}