@tuxom I'm afraid 1,5 is dying all around us. +1.5°C would have been possible if CO2 emissions had been declining rapidly in the past four years, but instead they have been growing. The only thing that could save +1.5°C now would be the immediate collapse of the world economy and the world market, production and consumption of goods dropping by more than half within a year or two. Especially all the petrostates would have to collapse completely, with all their wealth annihilated.
But then again, the economy will collapse anyway. We need to build a different type of economy, one that is about sharing the wealth of this planet rather than exploiting and destroying it so that very few people can have more than half of it and half of humankind gets barely anything. We cannot afford rich people anymore. We cannot afford #Capitalism anymore.
At the root of the #polycrisis lies simple economic growth. #ClimateCatastrophe , #ResourceDepletion , #SixthExtinction , #collapse , all of this is just the cancerous #growth of the Capitalist world economy. The world has exceeded the #LimitsToGrowth since the 1980s, and it has been getting worse ever since, weakening the very foundations upon which every civilisation since the Late Stone Age has been built. Capitalism is the cancer that is killing the world, an economy that still tries to grow when growth isn't even needed anymore, when there is enough for everybody already, and which rather destroys unsold goods than just give them to the poor.
I fear all those tiny island nations will cease to exist, they will probably have to move to larger nations like NZ or Australia, and then they will get absorbed by them. Nobody will stop that from happening anymore. Stopping it would need an immediate world revolution against the industrial economy, no matter whether the industries are owned by private capital or by the state in the name of the people. People just won't do that, at least not now, and if it happens later, the machines will have caused so much more irreversible damage... it's quite awful, this entire situation. Those who survive the next few decades will go through ghastly ordeals and see horrors few of us dare to imagine.
Things seem hopeless? Good. Enough of these hopium pipe dreams, it's time to get angry and smash things. The Club of Rome told us 52 years ago that the end of growth and the beginning of the collapse was coming, nobody has ever done anything big or radical enough to stop it, we have known what was coming for decades. It's time to stop playing nice. It's time for revenge.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis
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