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UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
« on: October 19, 2018, 06:06:12 pm »

UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism

Nicolas Loris / October 19, 2018

What will it take to keep the planet habitable?

According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism—the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering.

The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.”

The sentiment is not new. Three years ago, while pushing for the Paris Climate Accord, U.N. climate official Christiana Figueres described the strategy this way:

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Re: UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2018, 06:30:23 pm »
That was the whole point of this Climate Change nonsense in the first place.

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Re: UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2018, 12:17:34 am »
^^^^^
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

"Climate change" had nuthin' to do about "changin' the climate".
It had everything to do with changing the political/economic systems!