The Jumper Reality

 

Mario Draghi: “Do you prefer peace or the air conditioning on? That’s the question we should ask ourself”. pic.twitter.com/ErT6E5X4aq

— David Carretta (@davcarretta) April 6, 2022

There is a similar complaint--would we be willing to freeze if Russian oil demanded it? Like, seriously--is it worth freezing not to support genocide? Is it worth putting on a jumper and extra blankets?  When portable crematoria might be disappearing the evidence of bodies in Mariupol? So, now that it is spring, and we don't need to think about the cold as much, what if summer was a good reason to partially fund genocide? 

I would say, no. The temperature is never a reason to actually ever support genocide. Supporting genocide is always bad. Air conditioning can also be contributing to climate change so we should think good and hard about how we achieve our very temporary tolerable temperatures, and what we are willing to sacrifice for that limited comfort. 

We aren't presented with peace or AC, however. We are presented with genocide and an eventual desert called peace, and the future where we are always getting our commodified energy resources from monsters unless we try to do better and fully engage in renewable energy and become really self-sufficient. Anywhere. 

I like the idea of energy that isn't monster-fueled and doesn't fuck up the environment. We can do it. We seriously can.