Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Capitalism, Green or Otherwise, Is ''Ecological Suicide''

Click here to access a review by David Klein of a book entitled Green Capitalism: The God that Failed by Richard Smith posted on TruthOut.
The climate crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. At the current rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, warming of the planet will shoot past two degrees Celsius by mid-century and reach 4°C to 6°C beyond pre-industrial averages by 2100. The magnitude of the impending catastrophe was eloquently described by Hans Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, when he said, "the difference between two and four degrees is human civilization …"