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[Jackpine Radical]

83. Why do we have to frame everything as a war?

Climate change is the greatest challenge to our survival that the species has faced, at least since the Toba near-extinction event of 70,000 years ago (which is thought to have left only 15,000 humans alive).

We must make rapid and profound changes in our behavior and in our worldview if we are to salvage an existence worth living, or perhaps existence at all.

One of the toughest changes we will need to make is to shift onto a cooperative cultural model. War is one of the destructive pastimes the species needs to leave behind. We must commit to finding and implementing rational solutions, we must overcome our own childish, self-centered impulses.

Wars on abstractions don't work because they play on the wrong metaphor and lead us to do the wrong things in confronting problems.

What we have to do is not to fight a war, but to grow up.