Climate Change and Austerity

“Climate change” is the same kind of neoliberal austerity justification as the BLM. Budget cuts to firefighting and cleaning the forest floor are justified by saying that it’s useless to spend money on them anyway. It’s all climate change. There’s nothing the government can do.

Instead of providing services to the public, the government is now in the business of finding explanations for why providing services would be wrong, useless, immoral.

There’s no difference between claiming that a hurricane was unleashed on New Orleans a punishment for homosexuality and claiming that Pacific Palisades burned as punishment for climate change.

I know that some people will be tempted to inform me virtuously that climate change is real as if it being real justified defunding fire departments instead of giving them more funding. For such people, the reality of climate change presupposes the profound immorality of doing anything to counteract that thing they say is very real and definitely exists. Their “climate change is real” is the equivalent of a Muslim’s “Allah illallah.” It’s a statement of faith that doesn’t necessitate anything other than being made on regular occasions.