There are no non-radical options left ... If we stay on the road we are on, then our leading scientists as well as some of our most conservative institutions like The World Bank, the International Energy Agency, PriceWaterhouseCooper tell us that we are headed directly towards four to six degrees Celsius of warming from pre-industrial levels - and at that level, all bets are off ... We are, she said, looking at massive crop failures, famine, whole countries beneath the water, big cities including New York and London in jeopardy. As to how we got into this mess, she is absolutely clear - its the corporations, and politicians subservience to corporate interests and the neoliberal, free trade agenda that has ruled the world since round about 1988, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed. The reason we have failed to tackle the climate crisis is that it landed on us at the worst possible time, in the late 1980s, at the very peak of capitalist triumphalism, she argued, as I began my interview with her in a private room at Blackwells bookshop, looking out over Broad Street to the carved stone heads of Roman emperors. Time magazine had just declared planet Earth man of the year and there was a real willingness to take these issues seriously and act to solve global problems. theecologist.org/Interviews/2710065/naomi_klein_a_crisis_this_big_changes_everything.html
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:44:11 +0000
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