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DESCRIPTION:Presentation, film and discussion on the article By Raymond 
 Lotta:\nWorsening Climate Crisis... Not a Time for Magical 
 Thinking,\nConfronting the Reality of the System Destroying the 
 Planet,\nand Why a Real Revolution Is Our Only Chance of Saving It\n\nThe 
 catastrophes and suffering caused and exacerbated by global warming are 
 intensifying and spreading. Wildfires. Record heat. Melting glaciers and 
 polar ice. Oceans hotter and more acidic.\n\nGovernments the world over are 
 failing to meet, or flat-out abandoning, pledges to reduce carbon emissions 
 rapidly and move decisively away from fossil fuel.\n\nYet the climate 
 movement is barely to be seen. A major reason is that influential leaders 
 of the climate movement—like Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and Rebecca 
 Solnit—have been pushing “magical thinking”:\n\nMagical Thinking, Act 
 1: Distort Reality to Tell a More “Positive and Hopeful”Story\nMagical 
 Thinking, Act 2: The Inflation Reduction Act as the Climate Fix of Our 
 Lifetimes\nMagical Thinking, Act 3: The Fallacy of the Capitalist Market 
 Propelling A Green Energy Transition... Of Cheaper, Accessible Renewable 
 Energy Beating Out Fossil Fuels\n\nBut the capitalist-imperialist system 
 can NOT be pressured and reformed to bring about the necessary green-energy 
 transition. Fossil fuels are an essential foundation of the whole system. 
 Only a revolution guided by the new communism developed by the 
 revolutionary leader Bob Avakian gives us the chance to repair and protect 
 the planet and to emancipate humanity.\n\n“If we are going to be 
 scientific about climate change and act commensurately, we not only need to 
 grasp the science of climate change. We also need to be scientific about 
 society and confront the reality of the system that we live under and that 
 rules over us: capitalism-imperialism.”\n\nread the article here: 
 https://revcom.us/en/worsening-climate-crisis-not-time 
 magical-thinking-confronting-reality-system-destroying-planet-and\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/28/18888880.php
SUMMARY:Worsening Climate Crisis...Not a Time for Magical Thinking
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/28/18888880.php
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