We have to appeal to people’s material interests. At least in the imperial core, there’s nothing to offer people right now but dusty theory. Basically, we need to build living situations that are resilient. So that could mean creating communities with like-minded people that can produce their own energy, mitigate heatwaves, resist wildfires and flooding, things like that. Their very valid fear of collapse will drive them to us if we can put material benefits on display.

It’s not a mass movement builder overnight, but it would mitigate a lot of the problems for the people involved and draw a lot of people to our side, especially if we can provide disaster relief.

Basically instead of telling people to eat less meat, which they will never do, we need to change the way we think about it. The better question is what will the world look like if people walk off the cliff and eat every last animal and burn every last drop of oil, because they will do just that. So if that’s true then how do we mitigate the worst outcomes for the most people?