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RE: Climate Change Will Kill Us All - But There's Some Hope

in #news7 years ago

I appreciate your honesty in dealing with climate change in a grown up way that confronts the real threat of near term extinction. The only way to save the planet is to overthrow capitalism on a global scale. Late stage capitalism, or suicide capitalism as I call it, has finally brought humanity and all life on the planet to the very brink of catastrophe.
I would suggest at some point that you interview Dr.Guy McPherson or Derek Jensen. Both have faced huge criticism, indeed death threats, for telling it as it is. The culture of late stage capitalism is insanity personified with its addiction to turbo consumerism.
The vast majority of people appear unable to comprehend that infinite economic growth is impossible upon a planet of finite resources.
I have spent over 30 years active in the socialist/labour movement and have written and studied its history. Sadly, it too suffers from the same failing as it promises rising living standards for all based upon the democratic ownership and management of the means of production by the people. On a planet of infinite resources it just might work.
I know many will say that I am a pessimist and that the future has not written yet which is true up to a point. Marx once said the job of socialists is to try and analyse the objective political and economic situation facing the mass of humanity not laugh or cry at a situation.