1.) badly allocated mental energy; individual resentment and facile diagnosis that ends with borrowed lines from obscure authors, that fails to enable or generate any kind of ceative, concerted, or sustainable alternative

2.) insufficient process of translation at the intersection of political will and cultural value; a lack of consistent effort and enactment simultaneous with a lack of desire and the recognition of stewardship and responsibility in the context of an always-existing ecology…the gesture was deflated before it was even commenced. it seems we get ever more anxious in proximity to actually acting and doing something (as opposed to the anxiety of environmental degradation, the ‘real’ threat), which is to say we’ve got no guts, or that the betrayal of our desires in the form of some happy solution as a sign of doing something is what we fear most (lacan). the “we” is a stretch. i know small interventions are being made but the consciousness here has to change. we are not entitled…

3.) capital: profit, overdevelopment, organizational structures (the opa), unions (check the latest powerworkers union advertisements, then see them cut to shreds in this week’s now magazine); lack of feasible “market-based solutions” and, additionally, the hegemony of neoliberal economic models of production and service that only accomodate applications and instruments that immediately pay for themselves, keeping other solutions off the market (but go bullfrog power); the prospects of economic collapse when dirty legs are pulled out of the flow; the reliance on technologies, green or otherwise, which may save us from one problem (i.e., killing ourselves) only to exacerbate another (“see, we can outstrip our own capacities if we have the proper technology”).

the problem is that the catastrophe’s already occurred…