Ideas to ease
catastrophic climate change are simple, but application of them is complex
in the extreme.
Writing in “Spiegel Online” Harald
Welzer, who teaches social psychology
at Flensburg and St. Gallen Universities, took us through some of those
complexities in an essay headed: “Climate summit trap: capitalism’s march toward global collapse”.
Although
Welzer is critical of the “sleek, but unfortunately destructive principle of
capitalism”, he does discuss a way ahead.
“Imagine,
for example”, he wrote, “what might happen if a large number of businesses make
the improvement of the common good – instead of an increase in their profits –
the goal of their commercial efforts”.
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