When I (hopefully) get my life together enough for myself, this is what I would look into.

The planet will be fine. WE are fucked, the planet doesn't give a shit about us.

I hear you, but It's impossible to create a working model. The US literally toppled South American governments to make its resource markets open to our market capitalists. Look what we've inflicted on Cuba for half a century, and I look to their survival in the face of it as inspirational.

The global market capitalists endeavor to exploit and enshittify every national economy that dares to serve its citizens over private shareholders at every turn, to dehumanize societies for profit.

You may be right, that if all we can do is make claims in our appeal for radical action, the market capitalists will maintain power. To that I say, that is probably what will happen. This isn't a fairy tale or a movie where everything will work out in the end, the trajectory we're on leads to hell for our species, and we will in all likelihood arrive to that hell. If we're too comfortable or too afraid to do otherwise in spite of the evidence and increasingly our experience of the consequences, this only ends one way.

Market capitalism has been tested, run its course, and imho, it takes a fool not to declare it a complete failure and danger to the species. But I'm just a random perceptive asshole, so that doesn't change anything.

advocates of radical change like this need to create a working model of what this actually looks like and implement it somewhere before people will trust that these ideas can help them

The CIA would have a word about that

🤔 We all could put money together and go start some intentional communities out in Oregon or something.

Hell, we can look at the Amish to see what works and what doesn't.

Scroll down. I'm still going to do what I can. But I'm resigned to the fact that, odds are, it's beyond hope.

Yep. Have fun while you can. I mean I'm going to still do what I can do, vote for the right people but... At this point... It's like we are a person still diligently showing up to all his chemotherapy appointments despite the fact he's resigned to it not working in the end.

and here I was, wondering what a piece of metal had to with any of it.

TIL lede isn't just the British word for lead.

Possibly we just didn't know. They said they had to study a specific Caribbean sea creature to figure it out.