We can forget about fixing the planet's ecosystems and climate until we have fixed government systems, a panel of leading international environmental scientists declared in London on Friday. The solution, they said, may not lie with governments at all.I'm not sure what science advisers meant by the last sentence, but it is clear to me that the system of capitalism will inevitably drive toward our ecological peril, unless we, the 99 Percent, are willing and able to change the system to something that can exist in harmony with our habitat, our planet.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists
Click here to access article by Fred Pearce from New Scientist.