Friday, May 30, 2014

Staying in the environmental frying pan only gets us hotter

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from his blog Systemic Disorder.

The metaphorical frying pan as "green capitalism" is what is suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which insists that capitalist economies can solve the problem of climate destabilization with little cost. Dolack argues...
Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns.