How The Climate Change Fight Will Make World Politics Better

In trying to save the planet, we might just change global politics forever; In addition to less pollution, lower energy bills and shorter commutes to work, we might also look forward to less corrupt and destabilising financial speculation, less militarism, and the demise of a few of the world’s worst authoritarian regimes

David Wearing, August 10, 2018 (UK Independent)

“Was this the fright we needed? Will the deadly global heatwave of 2018, together with fresh scientific warnings that climate catastrophe might be unfolding far quicker than previously thought, finally kick-start a response that stands a serious chance of tackling the problem? That’s up to us. Fatalism even at this late stage would be as self-indulgent as the complacency that allowed matters to reach this desperate point. It is still possible to save humanity, but action must be immediate and dramatic…

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Getting serious about climate change…means thinking carefully through the implications and knock-on effects…Global warming is the product of a specific form of political-economic organisation, a contemporary capitalism dominated by insatiable and unaccountable corporations, and major states jostling between themselves for geopolitical advantage…It is the extensive, multi-layered set of vested interests committed to the rigid preservation of that system which have brought humanity to the edge of the abyss…The changes required to bring us back from the brink are not necessarily to be feared or endured…[They can also result in] less corrupt and destabilising financial speculation, less militarism, and the demise of a few of the world’s worst authoritarian regimes…” click here for more

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