By Situation Theatre 18/8/2019. Updated10/7/2021.

“Never forget the power of KeepCups”.

By 2021, with signs of the climate collapse and mass extinction all around them, most human beings continued to ignore the fact that it was the fundamental properties of capitalism, namely the profit motive and infinite growth on a finite planet, that were murdering all life on Earth.

They refused to believe that a new social, political, and economic system was urgently needed, and this system was called eco-socialism.

100 companies had been responsible for the world’s emissions since 1988, and some of those knew the existential threat posed by climate change since the late 70s and did all they could to sabotage evasive action.

The world’s most powerful countries continued to cook the planet to keep those fossil fuel coffers overflowing.

Force-fed neoliberal propaganda for decades, billions of human beings found it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us then to learn that by 2050, following the wipe-out of 10 billion humans and most species of flora and fauna, the last words of the last human being on Earth were “if only we could ban plastic straws”.