No, we're not all in it together. Our rulers are responsible for the system that's creating an ecological catastrophe. As that crisis intensifies, it's exposing and intensifying the divide between us and them.
What's life like after an ecological disaster strikes? The residents of fire-ravaged New South Wales are going through an experience that will only become more common as climate change wreaks havoc with the ecosystem, and capitalism leaves the victims to suffer.
Now even right wing politicians are talking about using traditional Aboriginal land management techniques to mitigate fire risk. But pre-Invasion land management wasn't about logging and clearing land for profit: it combined knowledge of land with collective, egalitarian planning.
