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more wars

Drought and famine will continue to be used as pretexts to push genetically modified seeds, driving farmers further into debt. And, in the name of “national security,” we will intervene in foreign conflicts over water, oil, and arable land, or start those conflicts ourselves. In short our culture will do what it is already doing, only with more brutality and barbarism, because that is what our system is built to do.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by Naomi Klein

 

Wipe out!

The World Bank also warned when it released its report that “we’re on track for a 4°C warmer world [by century’s end] marked by extreme heat waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise.” And the report cautioned that, “there is also no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible.”

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein

OK please think what  “there is also no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible” means.

Simply put, life systems as we know them could collapse catastrophically. That equals starvation. That equals mass deaths. Most probably would not even be caused by actual famine. More people would die from war and conflict. If this happens on a massive enough scale people will migrate in vast numbers to parts of the world where they think they will be able to survive. The developed world is delusional and needs to study history if it thinks it can some how ring fence itself in. The world as we know will end.

Islam is Green :)

 

 

 

World leaders don't care about us or the planet...

Throughout the summit, this young man had been the picture of confidence and composure, briefing dozens of journalists a day on what had gone on during each round of negotiations and what the various emission targets meant in the real world. Despite the challenges, his optimism about the summit’s prospects never flagged. Once it was all over, however, and the pitiful deal was done, he fell apart before our eyes. Sitting in an overlit Italian restaurant, he began to sob uncontrollably. “I really thought Obama understood,” he kept repeating.

I have come to think of that night as the climate movement’s coming of age: it was the moment when the realization truly sank in that no one was coming to save us. The British psychoanalyst and climate specialist Sally Weintrobe describes this as the summit’s “fundamental legacy”—the acute and painful realization that our “leaders are not looking after us we are not cared for at the level of our very survival.” No matter how many times we have been disappointed by the failings of our politicians, this realization still comes as a blow. It really is the case that we are on our own and any credible source of hope in this crisis will have to come from below?

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Kein

The Messenger's of Allah faced similar challanges. Their message, far from being an opiate for the masses was a force for their liberation. The toughest opposition to the Messengers was always from the powers that be, the ruling elite, the establishment who could only see their challange to status quo as a threat.

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Most talk about reducing emissions is a load of hot air!

Preliminary data shows that in 2013, global carbon dioxide emissions were 61 percent higher than they were in 1990, when negotiations toward a climate treaty began in earnest. As MIT economist John Reilly puts it: “The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing.” Indeed the only thing rising faster than our emissions is the output of words pledging to lower them.

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein

Talk is not even cheap. All these conferences and meetings and summits themselves are contributing to climate change! We need more radical solutions, and mere materialistic philisophical and political world views won't cut it. 

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