31 July 2018 — Climate & Capitalism – Green Social Thought

Pseudo-Solutions

“The absurdity of the original vertical farming dream has become obvious, but the quest has not been abandoned.”

Stan Cox says ecomodernists are far better at inventing technological fantasies than at finding ways to solve environmental crises

Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little was being done about the global ecological crisis before January 2017 as has been done since. Neither then nor now has the national or world power structure acknowledged that deep reductions in human resource use and economic activity, but with sufficiency for all, are necessary. Instead, the most popular proposed “solutions” would double down on human ingenuity and market forces, the two factors that have been central to creating our predicament in the first place.

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