the data has spoken, the scientists have spoken, the charts and graphs have spoken, and now the heat is speaking and the worldwide flooding and storms are speaking and soon the desertification will speak and the global migration to the north will speak and the billions of deaths will speak

and it is no use trying to convince anyone. all those in power have already decided to do nothing, and even if everyone on earth was magically convinced of the danger ahead, still nothing could be done in time. the requirements of democracy mean that before any action there would be years of talking and debating before for any laws could be agreed on and passed and any changes put into effect–if we started right now it would still take decades that we don’t have. it’s too late, wildlife will vanish, ecosystems will collapse, temperatures will rise, incomprehensible numbers of people will suffer and die

and while all that is happening, those who caused it will have passed away peacefully and happily rich in their beds surrounded by servants and the best doctors and their loved ones (if they are capable of such emotions.) and those billions of victims will be crying out for retribution, but the perpetrators will have already escaped into the hereafter.

we, and only we, right now and only now, have a unique and soon expiring opportunity to take revenge.

and we deserve revenge. the future victims deserve revenge. because not only have those with power and means done nothing, they have actively prevented anything from being done. they have spread misinformation and lies, they have bribed and bullied and possibly worse, they have spent untold billions on making sure that things have stayed exactly the way they are. and they have known, they have all known, for 40 years they have known what it would lead to. we deserve revenge, and they deserve our revenge.

if we don’t act now, this crime against humanity–against life itself, will go unpunished, and our children will live their difficult lives knowing that not only did their parent’s do nothing to prevent the dystopian hellscape around them, but instead rewarded those who created it. and the only thing worse than watching the world burn would be to watch while knowing that the arsonists were praised and applauded, and were gifted with long lives of luxury and peaceful deaths.

they’ve burned our home, so let’s burn theirs. burn every one of their dozens of houses, burn their yachts and skyscrapers, burn their data centers. let them die in poverty like the rest of us.