From "On Politics: War by Other Means 02"

When elites try to suppress social changes to preserve the systems that allow them to be elites, pressure for change inexorably builds. If they can stave off change long enough, paradigm shifts become generational and relatively blood free. The Old Guard dies off and is replaced by new faces.

When circumstances force change before the existing elites are capable of accommodating it. Well, that’s what revolutions and civil wars are all about, isn’t it?

The elites that have profited from the fossil fuel economy have suppressed action on Climate Change for over 30 years now. They are still trying to suppress action from being taken so that they can squeeze out another 10–20 years of cash flow from the fossil fuel industries.

Our politics and society are on a crash course with climate change. The results are probably going to be ugly.

When the Climate Awakening happens later this decade. People under 40, the ones who are going to have to live in the world our climate bomb is creating, are going to be filled with a lot of rage.

They are going to burn with righteous anger and a blazing desire to punish the people who did this to them. That rage is going to dominate American and global politics by the end of this decade. 2031 is going to be a vastly different political landscape than 2021.

Review the French Revolution if you want a sense of what’s coming.

Revolutions are sometimes necessary but that one ended with “The Terror” and then Napoleon. Angry vengeful people rarely create stable, functional political structures.

The failure of the current elites to deal with the Climate Crisis is catastrophic because it is going to unleash revolutionary impulses. Historically, revolutions have high body counts.