Climate change is caused by everything we do. We need a new answer to the question of what our economy is for
You don't need me to tell you how bad climate change is. It's bad. If you want, have a look at the latest report from the IPCC, which not only sets out the myriad ways climate change will mess everything up, but inconveniently points out that it's already happening.
It's hard not to feel disempowered. Climate change is caused by everything we do: our entire energy system, itself a subset of our GDP-obsessed, consumerist economy. The one corrective thing that's supposed to sort out such systemic failures political leadership cowers and trembles, desperately wanting for both imagination and guts.
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