Renewable Revolution

COUNTERPUNCH

FEBRUARY 25, 2022 BY MANUEL GARCÍA, JR.


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A  Power Pentagon is the following closed cycle of ego-driven ambition for personal power:

fossil fuel —> 💰🎩 economic power —> 🦍 military power —> 🐷 political power —> 💥 war power —> 😈🦖 fossil fuel.
The continuing existence of Power Pentagons as the foundation of our international relations is the reason that we are not making, nor will make, the socio-economic alterations to our civilization needed to effectively slow the advance of Global Warming Climate Change (GWCC), and to arrive at a stable balance between the workings of our industrialized civilization with the cycles of Nature. ... ...

The obvious image for this desired future state of human affairs would be World Eco-Socialism: a world socialism powered with “green” energy (infrastructure not emitting greenhouse gases, toxic wastes, and pollutants), and with both poverty and extreme wealth made history. 

For any such green utopian reformulation of human civilization to occur, it will be necessary for us humans to remove the limitations we place on our own species’s societal development by remaining mired in the fractious international politics of the clashes of Power Pentagons — “the Great Game” — which has been the case since long before the days of Lawrence of Arabia.

Full article:
 https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/25/the-power-pentagon/