How Capitalism Torched the Planet and Left it a Smoking Fascist Greenhouse

Sometimes, after I write scary essays, I encourage you to not learn them. This one’s totally different. It’s going to be brutal, scary, jarring, and alarming. But in case you actually need to perceive the longer term, then learn away.

It strikes me that the planet’s destiny is now in all probability sealed. We have just a decade in which to control climate change — or goodbye, an unknown stage of catastrophic, inescapable, runaway warming is inevitable — based on the UN. The actuality is: we’re in all probability not going to make it. It’s extremely doubtful at this juncture that humanity goes to win the battle in opposition to local weather change.

Yet that’s for a really surprising — but completely predictable — purpose: the sudden explosion in international fascism — which is what capitalism all the time melts down into. If, when, Brazil elects a neo-fascist who plans to raze and unload the Amazon — the world’s lungs — then how do you suppose the battle in opposition to warming will likely be received? It will likely be set again by a long time — a long time…we don’t have. America’s latest Supreme Court justice, a tremendous fellow accused of serial rape, is already hanging down environmental legal guidelines — in his first few days in workplace — however he will likely be on the bench for all times…beside a President who hasn’t simply decimated the EPA, however stacked it with…the type of delusional, strutting Americans who assume international warming is a hoax. The world is about by again by a long time…it doesn’t have. Do you see my level but? Let me make it razor sharp.

Read the Alharo story - “How Capitalism Torched the Planet and Left it a Smoking Fascist Greenhouse.”

Even though the world is waming, you still need your groceries

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ost Australians believe climate change is happening, even if they don’t all believe it’s caused by human activity.

"Buying groceries in a warming world".

But they’re sometimes at a loss to know what their consumer choices should be in adapting to a warming world. And an inevitable range of competing demands means many consumers will, either through choice or necessity put other factors ahead of climate.

A research team at CSIRO, led by Dr Lilly Lim-Camacho, have looked at how people prioritise climate change adaptation, both as a social issue and as an influence on their consumption and purchasing of food products.

Read the report here: “Buying the groceries in a warming world”.

Loss of West Antarctic ice sheet 'inevitable'

Studies have shown that the loss of West Antarctic Ice sheet is inevitable.

A story headed: “Study indicates loss of West Antarctic glaciers appears unstoppable” says the massive ice-sheet is in a state of irreversible decline.

The study, based on multiply lines of evidence and 40 years of evidence, says the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica “have passed the point of no return”.

“These glaciers,” the story noted, “already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.

“The contain enough ice to raise global see level by 4 feet (1.2 metres) and are melting faster than most scientists had expected,” it said.