Is revolution the only way we can elicit change?

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277. Revolutions never result in the kinds of changes that are actually needed.

By "changes that are actually needed" I mean things like: lower world population numbers, less global economic activity, no CO2 emissions, less deforestation and desertification, less water use and pollution, less ocean acidification...

Revolutions leave the human-built social structure, with all its underlying growth imperatives, intact. A revolution may temporarily cause growth to slow, or to occur more humanely in one region or an other, but it doesn't fix the problem. It can't because the big problem lies in our evolved nature as clever, but un-wise, social creatures.

If we don't fix what we're doing to the biosphere, the rest is just fancy embroidery on our body-bags. Unfortunately I see no way that a revolution, violent or not, can fix what we're doing to the planet.