'To keep acting as if there wasn't war declared against the planet and humanity is to accept we are already defeated. Continuing to play their game can only guarantee collapse. It's time to flip the table.'
To keep acting as if there wasn't war declared against the planet and humanity is to accept we are already defeated. Continuing to play their game can only guarantee collapse. It's time to flip the table.This year we saw some of the consequences of the climate crisis devastating rich countries in the Northern Hemisphere. This didn't lead to any political changes, though. Institutions remain the grease for the engines of capitalism.
Global greenhouse gas emissions have increased dramatically . Emissions in China are expected to increase by about 4% relative to 2020, those in India by about 13%, the European Union and the United States by about 8%. The bulk of all the"economic recovery"that has existed has been based on oil, gas and coal. Coal actually saw its biggest annual rise ever, over 9% . Global capitalism remains absolutely addicted to fossil fuels and with no credible plan to stop being so.
In February, the collapse of part of the Nanda Devi glacier in India led to a river tsunami that ruptured the Dhauliganga dam, killing more than 80 people. Cold waves in the United States lead to power cuts to more than 10 million people, particularly in Texas and Nebraska. Temperatures were up to 40°C below normal for the season and almost 200 people died. Record lows in temperature were also broken in Canada. In South America the worst drought in 90 years has occurred.
Forest fires devastated Greece and Turkey in the late summer and in October a very rare Mediterranean hurricane, Apollo, made landfall in Sicily. By this time famine in Madagascar, combining extreme poverty with prolonged drought, had reached more than a million people.
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