Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The Exact Timing of Near-Term Human Extinction Is Academic

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, June 1, 2014

The Exact Timing of Near-Term Human Extinction Is Academic

Click here to access article by xraymike79 from his blog Collapse of Industrial Civilization.

The author provides us with scientific evidence that our capitalist masters refuse to acknowledge because they are addicted to a system that supplies them with their drugs of wealth and power. In short, we humans are already in deep doo-doo; but if we continue to allow their system to function, we will be flushed down the toilet of extinction.

If all industrial activity stopped right now, we would already be committed to 2.65°C, a global average temperature rise of three times what we are currently experiencing. With all the drought, flooding, hurricanes, landslides, fires, and other manifestations of climate change that we are undergoing now, I shudder to think what the world will be like in 2050 and yet humans continue to burn coal and other fossil fuels at breakneck speed. According to the Climate Accountability Institute, half of all emissions have been produced in the past 25 years.