"The [US] political system is not salvageable. It will be overthrown in a mass uprising...or vast swaths of the globe will become uninhabitable & the rich will feed like ghouls off the mounting human misery. These are the 2 stark options" — @ChrisLynnHedges
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/fear-vs-fear/

"A genuine populism and New Deal socialism are the only hope of thwarting the rise of neofascist movements. This, however, will never be permitted by the Democratic Party hierarchy..."

"The fossil fuel industry, under the Democrats and Republicans, continues to pump carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The polar ice caps disappear. The sea levels rise. The deforestation expands. The clogging of the oceans with floating islands of plastic ... unchecked."

"The 10-day protest in April in London led by @ExtinctionR—which saw 1,130 people arrested as crowds repeatedly shut down major parts of the city in demonstrating against the failure of the ruling elites to confront the climate catastrophe—is what we must emulate."

"We’re looking at the collapse of the world’s agriculture systems ... Long before the sea level rises, we’re going to have a world economic collapse because we’re not going to be able to feed ourselves. ... That’s why people are in a panic." —Roger Hallam https://twitter.com/DavidLWindt/status/1160539782977597441

Trump "needs to go. But if you replace him with a Democrat, they’re not going to enact ‘Medicare for All’ [or] do a #GreenNewDeal. They are backing Trump, who now wants a war for oil in Venezuela, while the planet is burning from burning oil. It’s madness." — @HowieHawkins

"Switch off the electronic images. Ignore the media burlesque. ... We will save ourselves by building mass movements to overthrow corporate power. I am not certain we will succeed. But I am certain that if we fail, we are doomed." — @ChrisLynnHedges