Capitalism is finished. We need to declare a climate emergency to enact rational policies to bring CO2 emissions down as quickly as possible.
The starting point of any serious discussion of climate change must be to recognize that it is not possible to limit global 
warming to either 1.5 or 2°C in any “resource- and energy-intensive scenario” where economic growth continues in the usual fashion.
How the IPCC’s solutions for reversing the Earth’s warming encourage business as usual. Yes Magazine, Nov 02, 2018 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report released in October rightfully elicited much public commentary about global warming and its truly frightening impacts. But in those initial reactions, less attention was paid to the unnerving implications of the report’s suggested solutions, which encourage us to roll the dice on unproven technologies and double down on nuclear power.
Underlying the IPCC report’s claims is the belief that technological solutions can fix the climate problem. Yet these fixes don’t address the root cause of climate…
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