4 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Pseudo Solutions
by Roy Wilkes
The climate crisis may be dire, with ever more frequent and increasingly devastating floods and wildfires, with killer droughts and heatwaves across the globe, with oceans warming 40% faster and arctic ice sheets melting 70% faster than had been predicted a mere five years ago, with arctic permafrost melting and belching super-greenhouse methane into the atmosphere, and with carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion continuing to rise year on year regardless.
Left: Protest against Canadian interference in Haiti in 2004 after coup against popular Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. [Source: 
Yotuel Romero of Cuban hip-hop group Orishas performing in Warszawa, Poland, Sept. 15, 2009. (Henryk Kotowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The New Dark Age 