I fucking hate this. Its all for literally nothing. For fucking money. Money. Imaginary pieces of paper. Even worse, imaginary numbers on a fucking screen. Data. It's all for fucking nothing. We won't avoid the 1.5 C mark, and it might come in 5 years. 2 C would mean basically the end of any semblance of normal, at all, and the collapse of the global south. Forget even 3 degrees, I'd probably already be dead. They won. They fucking won. No revolution in the Imperial Core is possible. Everyone is a chud, or a lib, or a left anticommunist. We can't fucking win. It's over. The world is over.
That's not the quote I'm thinking of, unfortunately, although that one is in much the same spirit.
That's an understandable perspective. If you can take all that on board and still fight then I applaud you. I often think, though, about my coworkers, who are normal, well-intentioned people who have largely concluded that nothing will ever change and the only thing an individual can do is try and secure their own financial well-being.
The way to create compliant, apolitical people like that is to first convince them that a better world is not possible. That's why I emphasize the importance of believing in a better world even in the face of what seems like impossible odds