In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look, are already apparent in our world today. Feffer follows them to their logical conclusion. The climate is at war with the human species and every other species. The European Union, overrun with climate refugees, has disintegrated. China and Russia have folded in on themselves, as has the United States, where fractious and violent militias and gangs battle over diminishing resources. Splinterlands, with wry, black humor, is told by the octogenarian geo-paleontologist Julian West, mortally ill from one of the latest pandemic variants. This is a Mad Max world of water wars, imitation foods made from seaweed, inequality, disease, and sleeper terrorists. In the latest installment of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris speaks with Feffer about his book, the climate crisis, and where we are headed as a species.
John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams and the dystopian fiction trilogy Splinterlands, Frostlands, and Songlands. His writing has been featured in a range of outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon.
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This show hosts people who loathe humanity from time to time. Climate is a hoax and scam. One should begin there. America does not need to take resources, we have our own to use. It’s only corrupt policy by corrupt government that is a problem. The current government is the king of all corrupt administrations. We should begin there. But you don’t because you are still riding politics and political horses you are familiar with . Your old political habits are dinosaurs. It’s just a corrupt government aligned with globalists trying to make a global prison, and on the other side, us, the global middle class or slave class if we loose this struggle. But go on and ride your old horse that serves no one but the cabal because you are afraid to come to the middle…
Just more propaganda for the climate change cult. Sad that even independent thinkers like Hedges have drank the kool aid.
Two commies dreamin' up ways to steal people's property
Race baiting fantasist, just a footnote in history. 😂
I'm surprised Open Society Foundation? That of George Soros?
ITS AMAZING THAT SUCH CRITICAL THINKERS CAN JUST ACCEPT CLIMATE SCARE BS MAN MADE CLIAMTE CHANGE IS BS THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF SCIENTIST THAT CAN DEBUNK THE JUNK SCIENCE THEY USE NOT TO MENTION THERE IS NOT ONE ACADEMIC PAPER PROVING MAN IS THE REASON THE CLIMATE CHANGES LOL
Fissures his boss who sponsors Open Society, helped create #ClimateCult #Agenda2030 #GlobalMAFIA
26:07 The Democratic Party is the party that controls everything. Many RINOs join them forming a Uniparty. As noted in an article in the January 2021 Time magazine there was a concerted effort in many quarters to defeat Trump in the 2020 November election to remove Trump from office.
Unfortunately, the collapse of the petrodollar in 2023 is looking more realistic.
I sense the wealthy elites are preparing for an orchestrated US collapse which is why our treasury is sucked up by military spending, a Militarized Police system across the country, the new trend of “police cities†(military police training bases), a Corporatocratic Plutocracy judiciary court system. Privatized prison system. The destruction of public education, the detachment of government away from the public. It looks to me like preparation for a fascist authoritarian police state
It can be said, for the very short period of 1990-2020, it was the best time on earth for humanity as a whole. In spite of that statement, there was still plenty of suffering. We are indeed a strange species.
Thank you, Chris Hedges for having John Feffer on. I bought his book.
I saw this the day it came on. May 22, I erased and rewriting this again May 2023.
Now it says July 8 , 2022 when this was done.
OK, let us eat bugs! Problem solved
How do people like Bush Sr. And Henry Kissinger, and other war criminals and swindlers live so long?
🤩don't know why YOU buy into the "red-blue" narrative—-most American's want a gov that works and is fair-but we live in a CORPORATE MILITARY POLICE STATE–and are fed BULL💩 24-7
1886 the us supreme court was bought by the railroads and made "corporations people" 100% against the USA Constitutionâ˜ ï¸ Woody Wilson was the first Prez of the USA CORPORATE MILITARY POLICE STATE—then we get Bernay's Sauce (mind control and his cousin Freud with sexual repression 😛 thank you religon) for over 100 years🙊🙈🙉 most American slaves (slave school brought to you by the corporate overlord Rockafella???)are clueless and distracted like GOOD SLAVES🤩 wonder why PEOPLE do drugs 😛 surrounded by ZOMBIE SLAVES😃🤣🤣🤣
they a bunch of liers the house of reperesents
"I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
Well…
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
[LOVE version:] I look from the wings at the play you are staging.
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all
As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrTMc2i6Lzc
No one wants to include God. By excluding GOD you seal your fate to a dystopian future.,
Seems everything being discussed in this video (book). Is about the culmination of the Reagan revolution. The shift of a public government to a “Corporatocratic Militarized Police State Plutocracy†where our tax system was no longer to provide government services or societal responsibilities (infrastructure, education, regulated: health services, energy, public utilities, banking, etc). To a private profit interest at the public/societal expense. As well as the shift from government being a public body to being a corporate (energy, health, financial, and military industrial (corporate) profit complex, public treasury trough. They get all the public taxes and the public is left owing the debt. Our elected officials have become “employee/contractors†of these “Corporatocrat Plutocracy†interests.
Reagan’s “trickle-down†Reaganomics was America’s economic con job to vote out our pretending “democracy†and “patriotically cult-like†vote away our government.
Today’s America is the culminated outcome of that Reagan revolution. Trump and his cult of ignorant Qanon fascist are the fruit of blue-collar poorly educated white Americans that voted against their interest and surrendered their public government to corporate interest and citizens United rule and control of a government that no longer has any interest or monetary gain to represent their interests
Sounds good but this area has already been covered in both fiction and non-fiction by James Howard Kunstler and many of the peak oil authors of the early 2000s.
B.S.
#Aloha
pure fantsy… as c02 has never een the major driver of "climate change' as the woke gloalist crowd keeps pushing despite growing evidence that discredites this theory. ie celestrial mechanics , suns varing radiant heat , people arent snails they can move faster than any supposed ocean rise. of a few mm / year at most . for most of earth history their never was any ice at the poles, and c02 are at dangerously low levels as at 150 ppm plant life dies. warming oceans means more coral reef s not less. check out green peace co founder vids for more info
this book sounds way too exciting to be realistic : the real dystopia is BORING
A modern day Nevil Shute
Cool let’s redistribute the after taxed sum of the novel to struggling comic book writers. I’m certain the author would be thrilled too be enrolled in the social monetary restructuring he advocates for.
Mad max world. (Road warrior, to murkans?).
Kennedy/Miller (the guys that came up with the mad max movie), were very prescient, as it turns out. (More an extension of logic, than imagination, that seemed fanciful, at the time?).
BTW if you want to know why society is splintering you dont need to look any further than user ID's and the ignore button
& putting a access point in everyone's pocket
i watched them destroy a society of critical thinkers on 4chan unrivaled in the real world, turn it into a ideological hellscape where 1/2 the survivor's either believe in a flat earth or lizard people farming humans for adrenochrome or now simply useful idiots for the CIA/q followers.
by simply making ID's mandatory and adding a ignore function ive seen EXACTLY in real time how you can turn the library of Alexandria into the tower of babble and its just that simple
you need a fixed ID so algorithm can know you & feed you the right triggers at the right time & u need ignore function so you can self police your silo to avoid ppl outside algorithm triggering ppl & a portable acess point thats always on so algorythm can reinforce its triggers at the appropriate times for maximum effect
those 3 things turned the internet from the repository of all human knowledge into the largest brainwashing operation in human history, the beauty of it is…. it scales to the number of users
climate change is just the nazis solution to the riddle of' how do you hide a gas chamber '
last year despite record human emissions we sunk to less than 50% of emissions, positive feedback loops accounted for 54% of emissions, the Venus effect has begun
even if humans vanish today the earth is now on a 1 way path to becoming a iceless planet like venus before it
statistically speaking ….it is to late, we couldn't stop it when we where the ones driving it, we cant stop it now no we have imbued it with enough energy it can finish the process by itself. theirs 1600ppm Co2 equivalent in permafrost by time we hit 520ppm 1/2/ 800ppm will have melted thats why we had to keep it below 400ppm because thats when permafrost started melting & it contains 5x as much co2 in it as needed to warm planet enough to melt it all/create a 2000ppm/ 20&c average not 13*c average world world
humanity will be lucky if 1% survive to the next century the idea of complex societys continuing in places like america with the level of arms in community is laughable, once you remove central authority in a country with that many guns you get the congo or afghanistan dagistan extra in 50 years America will be a hellscape run by a few warlords history teaches us that
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