Excelente! Naomi Klein tem a coragem de dizer com toda a simplicidade, sem máscaras nem eufemismos, algumas das verdades mais inconvenientes sobre a crise climática global e sua relação com o capitalismo desregulado (ou neoliberal). Uma das coisas que o neoliberalismo libera, afinal de contas, é que as corporações possam poluir e devastar à vontade, sem que se preocupem com as consequências para o meio ambiente ou para as futuras gerações; é o vale-tudo dos lucros, que coloca a ganância imediatista à frente do equilíbrio da biosfera de nossa espaçonave Gaia. Se esta crise muda tudo, como sugere o título de Naomi Klein, é pois nos mostra a urgência de mudanças revolucionárias em nossos sistemas políticos e econômicos: deixar rolar o business as usual do capitalismo desregulado é um caminho suicida. Tudo o que precisamos fazer para que a catástrofe se concretize é... nada. Via The Guardian * * * * * I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I knew it was happening, sure. But I stayed pretty hazy on the details and only skimmed most news stories. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the shiny card in my wallet attesting to my elite frequent-flyer status. A great many of us engage in this kind of denial. We look for a split second and then we look away. Or maybe we do really look, but then we forget. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right. If we continue on our current path of allowing emissions to rise year after year, major cities will drown, ancient cultures will be swallowed by the seas; our children will spend much of their lives fleeing and recovering from vicious storms and extreme droughts. Yet we continue all the same. What is wrong with us? I think the answer is far more simple than many have led us to believe: we have not done the things needed to cut emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism, the reigning ideology for the entire period we have struggled to find a way out of this crisis. We are stuck, because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe – and benefit the vast majority – are threatening to an elite minority with a stranglehold over our economy, political process and media. - Naomi Klein theguardian/environment/2014/sep/13/greenwashing-sticky-business-naomi-klein?CMP=twt_gu
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:58:35 +0000
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