Sunday, November 03, 2013

How Science Is Telling Us All to Revolt - by Naomi Klein

Waste land: large-scale irrigation strips nutrients from the soil, scars the landscape and could alter climactic conditions beyond repair. [Image: Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/ Flowers, London, Pivot Irrigation #11 High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA (2011)] Click to enlarge.
What scientists and experts are saying, says Klein, is "that there is still time to avoid catastrophic warming, but not within the rules of capitalism as they are currently constructed.  Which may be the best argument we have ever had for changing those rules."

"The fact that the business-as-usual pursuit of profits and growth is destabilising life on earth is no longer something we need to read about in scientific journals.  The early signs are unfolding before our eyes."

How Science Is Telling Us All to Revolt - by Naomi Klein

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