saving the earth will mean dumping everything in our society now. 
we must again live in a sustainable way, a way unrecognizable to most of us. 
but again i wonder about the economic solutions being purposed. 
i draw hope from talks of a green new deal. 
and i like the idea that so many young people are socialists, 
at least by name. 
but i wonder too, is any of that enough? 
or is any of that really very convincing? 
because aren’t we all gone now, anyway? 
aren’t we all swept up in the mentality of capitalism? 
the consciousness of capitalism? 
we are there. 
often critically, often screaming to reshape our lives in radical ways, but, 
we remain, most of us at least, in capitalism. 
trapped in capitalism.

-nick pemberton