Fossil fuel executives are psychopaths

Fossil fuel companies and their executives are killing more than five million people a year.

Fossil fuel companies have donated to all political parties to get their industry protected by police and escalate the criminalisation of those who protest against them. This is a world-wide campaign of dark-triad psychopaths to create societies that protect their wealth while becoming hostile to the wellbeing of humanity. They are no different to the Israeli psychopaths who perpetrate a genocide against Palestinians, but do the same on a much larger scale.

With what is happening in Israeli now being made obvious to all, many are seeing how executives who might have been called centrist are just as ruthless as genocidal maniacs, but similarly have been hiding behind the huge amount of propaganda extolling a fake view of their value to the world. They, and many other executives who are just as ruthless and anti-humanitarian, are the enemies of the world. They do not want to let go of their wealth and privilege, but will employ all means at their disposal to eliminate opposition to their goals.

They are long past being negotiated with, but need to be removed from their positions of power and influence as a matter of urgency if we are to pull the earth back from destroying us because of their wanton destruction of its ecosystems that enable us all to live. They are wantonly driving us to self-destruction just to enrich their already massively excessive wealth. They have actively put themselves at the core of our societies' reliance on excessive growth for economic stability, even though it overloads the planet's capacity to cope.

They manipulate governments to protect their industries from being curtailed, by think tanks that persuade us to consider neoliberalism as essential to our way of life, and so vote in politicians who will implement the policies they have written for them, to militarising the police to protect them from unarmed protestors as if they are terrorists. These companies are like Coca-Cola, IBM, Standard Oil (now Exxon), GE, Ford, Chase Bank, Kodak, and ITT, who willingly supported the Nazi war effort, and thus undermined their own countries' efforts. They are traitors to humanity.

The big question is that with so much help from those politicians that are supposed to work for us, how do we reduce their influence? Firstly, we need to be aware of how they have persuaded us to support them in the first place. Some of that persuasion has been fairly direct, through the automobile industry whose fortunes have been intimately tied to fossil fuels, and who pushed for extensive road networks to embed their industry into modern life, particularly in the US.

Then there are the myriad industries also relying upon fossil fuels, from plastics to cosmetics, also pushing us to making their products almost essential to our lives. Our modern societies are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels, so we have to wean ourselves off our own dependencies upon products derived from fossil fuels. That means rethinking our lifestyles so that we reduce our consumption of them. Our awareness of the many ways we depend upon fossil fuels means we can vote for those who not only want to curtail use of fossil fuels, but also support creating non-polluting alternatives.

As we reduce our own dependencies, both individually and societally, we weaken the hold these polluting companies have over us. If they can no longer get into our heads, they cannot get into our wallets, nor those of our governments. We can take back our societies from all those who seek to exploit us. Being aware of how we are being exploited by advertising, thinktanks and the secret deals with political parties, we can more consciously define what we really want from our societies, and that makes us able to move them to where we want them to be.

That will hopefully be more egalitarian, fair and humanitarian as we understand better how most of our sense of selfishness and separation has been fostered by those who have been exploiting us for their own aggrandisement and avarice. We can be better than what we have been reduced to. It is up to us to find our humanity and make it the definer of our societies, and not by those who want to destroy us.