15 Comments
User's avatar
Sarah's avatar

Love this rant so much!! Are you subscribed to Sarah Wilson's substack? She just wrote a serialized book about collapse.

Expand full comment
Justin McAffee's avatar

Thanks Sarah. I am subscribed to Sarah Wilson’s Substack!

Expand full comment
Gavin Mounsey's avatar

"If you’re still romanticizing clean tech while ignoring who bleeds for your batteries, you’re not progressive—you’re complicit. You want real sustainability? Start by listening to the people who’ve been sustainable for 10,000 years. Start by standing between what’s sacred and the machines that want to grind it into rare earth dust."

Well said!

Since much of my educational work focuses on providing solutions based intel related to regenerative agroforestry (and I highlight ancient successful models designed by indigenous peoples) I will sometimes get 'in the closet white supremists' and/or corporate industrialism indoctrinated academic types accusing me of "romanticizing indigenous cultures" or promoting the "noble savage myth" because I am highlighting how effective their horticultural and land stewardship practices were (and are) compared to modern industrial monocultures. In reality, I see a much more prevalent trend of people romanticizing industrial civilization and promoting "the noble civilized sustainable city citizen myth".

You very sussinctly described that trend here.

Thank you for this resonant battle cry and call to action. You provide a dearly needed medicine for this community in the work you do as sacred warrior standing in defense of the living Earth.

Honored to walk this path along side of you brother.

Expand full comment
Jo Waller's avatar

You seem to be saying what you accuse the NWO of causing. That we should go back to how it was before the burning of fossil fuels and the industrial revolutions that enabled the massive increase in population. Ie a return to feudalism (when agriculture and foraging was very effective at feeding villagers a nice array of different foods and veg) and somehow a massive decrease in population achieved in line with indigenous numbers.

Expand full comment
Justin McAffee's avatar

Pretty sure he's saying that's what is going to happen either way. These systems aren't sustainable, and they are collapsing. So yes, start growing your own food. Yes, you won't be able to rely on the industrial system. And yes, the industrial system is destroying the planet... whether or not fossil fuels is even a factor. I think fossil fuels is a big part, not only because of climate change, but it literally fuels the machines that bulldoze ecological destruction. So why would you want to keep a system that destroys the planet?

Expand full comment
Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

Most people have been sold the idea that renewable energy is our savior, that our high consumption lives in wealthy nations can go on unimpeded. This has been a massive brainwashing game. Sorry, bad news, that EV you've been sold comes with the sacrifice of indigenous people as usual, ghastly environmental destruction, poorly paid or slave labor and destruction of the poorest and most vulnerable communities. This simplified version of our imperilment is referred to as climate change, just one element of many encompassed in overshoot, a subject not discussed. Our political leadership and media completely fail to tell the truth, that the reality of human extinction grows with every hour. It's utterly absurd and appears Homo sapiens is the worst evolutionary experiment ever. Now let me get dark...

Expand full comment
Gnug315's avatar

I liked your post. Does that count? I have no energy left any more..

Expand full comment
Justin McAffee's avatar

Sure Jan. 🤣

Expand full comment
Peace2051's avatar

I found out this past two weeks that lithium power is used in a high-performance solid rocket motor for missles, "Adranos invented a proprietary aluminum-lithium alloy fuel called ALITEC that can produce up to a 40% range increase in solid rocket motors, while saving costs.": https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-industries-acquires-solid-rocket-motor-manufacturer-adranos/ So much for lithium mining as the savior of the planet through EV use.

Expand full comment
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume's avatar

100%

Expand full comment
Jessi's avatar

Thank you so much for saying this. I feel the fire 🔥

Expand full comment
Justin McAffee's avatar

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your fire. ✊

Expand full comment
Jo Waller's avatar

There are very limited geoengineering projects of so2 in the stratosphere and SRM has met with huge resistance in the 'green' environmental science community. This focusing on perceived green colonialism continues to deflect from the massive hydrocarbon and animal ag industries who are currently destroying humans, and many other species, future on this planet. Poorly played. https://jowaller.substack.com/p/im-anti-vax-and-anti-geoengineering?utm_source=publication-search

Expand full comment
Justin McAffee's avatar

Green infrastructure is a growing threat to ecosystems globally. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Speaking truth about all topics of environmental destruction isn’t deflecting from anything. The energy transition deflects from our underlying unsustainable way of life, which we should all be speaking up about and fighting.

Expand full comment