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podcast: Planet Critical

title: Overthrowing the Ruling Class: The Green Democratic Revolution

summary

• This is a very insightful interview with James Schneider, communications officer of Progressive International on the scales of political change required to advert our existential Poly / meta / meaning crisis.
• James sees 3 levels of crisis
  • ordinary crisis emerging from a broken system
  • larger wicked problems that cannot be solved in isolation
  • the biggest umbrella crisis that covers all others - the last remaining decades of the fossil fuel system,
    • due to peak oil but accelerated by
    • climate crisis
• There has to be a paradigm shift on governance, as the ruling elites are driving humanity off the cliff edge
• This is not incremental change but a paradigm shift in governance
• To do that, we have to adopt an anti-regime perspective, that is not reinforcing the current infective administrative state, otherwise, as COVID taught us, we will end up driving the masses to adopt hard right politicians
• In order to establish the policies that are aligned to the science, the people and politicians have to be aligned.
• Voting in candidates who champion policies aligned to science is a leverage point.
• That can only be done if the citizenry is educated enough to vote for such politicians
• So there are two parallel tasks to be done:
  • mass education program to educate citizens
  • mass program to encourage candidates aligned to climate science to run for political office