In diagnosing the unprecedented existential threat humanity faces thanks to our myopia and unbridled greed, Klein has three essential points to make: 1.Because we have ignored the increasingly urgent warnings and pleas for action from climate scientists for a quarter century (!) now, the incremental or evolutionary paths to avert catastrophic global warming that we might have been able to take in the past are closed to us. 2. Humanity faces a stark choice as a result: the end of civilization as we know it or the end of capitalism as we know it. 3. Choosing “unregulated capitalism” over human civilization would be a “morally monstrous” choice — and so the winning message for the climate movement is a moral one.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 04:46:08 +0000
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