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Just having a plan to deal with climate change is at best half the battle.
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I have a plan to be a billionaire. Am I halfway there?
Climate change isn’t going to be resolved under capitalism but even if it was there’s still deforestation, coral reef death, plastics, depletion of aquifers, rivers and lakes decimated, the destruction of wetlands, desertification, unsustainable waste and garbage, nuclear arsenals that need to be dismantled, urban sprawl, over farming, destruction of biodiversity on every inch of human habitat and arable land, extinctions - all of this is at odds with economic models based on growth. Growth means very literally the exploitation of these things. There’s no other way to define it. Capitalism is based on the encroachment on the environment. Everything that is produced and consumed contributes to the destruction. The truth is we cannot solve even one of these problems when our economy is predicated on exacerbating ALL of these problems. No example of 20th century fascism even remotely competes with complete annihilation of the entire planet under our current model necro-capitalism. There’s never been anything like it and it’s completely incompatible with human existence.