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DESCRIPTION:2023, the hottest summer in human history. Records smashed for temperature 
 on land and at sea, for glaciers and polar ice melting, for 
 wildfires.\n\nThe science has now been clear for many years. We must break 
 with the trajectory of ever more emissions of greenhouse gases. What is at 
 stake is the planet itself and whether it can remain a viable home for 
 humanity and other living things.\n\nBut despite endless international 
 conferences, and even some agreements to cut emissions, and despite ever 
 cheaper renewable sources of energy, fossil fuels remain the foundation of 
 the economy, and emissions of the United States and the globalized world 
 economy as a whole increased again in 2022. And the capitalist system in 
 the US leads the pack: it’s US #1 in historic greenhouse gas emissions, 
 it’s US #1 exporter of fossil fuels on the planet, it’s US #1 enemy of 
 the global environment.\n\nClimate change is not driven by individual 
 consumption, and changes in lifestyle can NOT solve the problem. It is not 
 greed or human nature – it’s a social system that is taking the world 
 to the brink. And to those who say, yes, it’s a social/economic system, 
 then argue that the answer to climate change is to put pressure on the 
 government to rein in the corporations: that only reveals that you don’t 
 understand either the government, or the capitalist system that dominates 
 the planet.\n\nIt is the capitalist system that is the cause and driving 
 force of climate change. The burning of fossil fuel and the destruction of 
 the environment flow from the very foundations of capitalism – the 
 relentless competition between capitalists over profits reaped from global 
 networks of exploitation. The government exists to serve that system, it 
 will not and cannot rein it in.\n\nWe need a new, and fundamentally 
 different, system. Revolution - and only revolution - can open a path to a 
 world where human beings can be caretakers, rather than destroyers of 
 people and the planet. This is not some far-off utopia. The world we live 
 in is tearing apart right now, and out of this can come something terrible, 
 or something truly emancipating.\n\n"We can no longer afford to allow these 
 imperialists to continue to dominate the world and determine the destiny of 
 humanity. And it is a scientific fact that humanity does not have to live 
 this way."\n\nFrom: WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A 
 FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/21/18859051.php
SUMMARY:The Planet is on Fire! We Can No Longer Allow This Capitalist System to Dominate Humanity
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/21/18859051.php
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