Frederick alerts us to an intellectual myth

 

The idea that we can fix climate change by simply changing a few light globes is an intellectual myth of monumental proportions.



Frederick
Trainer.
 

Visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Frederick Trainer, writing on The Conversation, and who has personal experience of living ‘off the grid’, point says that falls well short of what’s need if the conditions leading to climate change are to be abated.

He said, in a story headed: “Living off-the-grid is possible, but it’s not enough to fix climate change”, that if we are serious we must totally scrap such things as  economic growth, and therefore capitalism, and largely scrap globalization, centralization, the market system, representative democracy, the financial system, big cities, modern agriculture and urbanism.