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ngine that has powered three centuries of accelerating economic development=
, revolutionizing technology, science, culture and human life itself is, to=
day, a roaring out-of-control locomotive mowing down continents of forests,=
sweeping oceans of life, clawing out mountains of minerals, pumping out la=
kes of fuels, devouring the planet's last accessible natural resources =
to turn them into "product," while destroying fragile global ecol=
ogies built up over eons of time. Between <a href=3D"tel:1950" value=3D"+66=
1950" target=3D"_blank">1950</a> and 2000 the global human population more =
than doubled from 2.5 to 6 billion. But in these same decades, consumption =
of major natural resources soared more than sixfold on average, some much m=
ore. Natural gas consumption grew nearly twelvefold, bauxite (aluminum ore)=
fifteenfold. And so on. At current rates, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson sa=
ys that "half the world's great forests have already been leveled =
and half the world's plant and animal species may be gone by the end of=
this century."</p>
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Corporations aren't necessarily evil, though plenty are diabolically ev=
il, but they can't help themselves. They're just doing what they=
9;re supposed to do for the benefit of their shareholders. Shell Oil can=
9;t help but loot Nigeria and the Arctic and cook the climate. That's w=
hat shareholders demand. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and other mining giants ca=
n't resist mining Australia's abundant coal and exporting it to Chi=
na and India. Mining accounts for 19% of Australia's GDP and substantia=
l employment even as coal combustion is the single worst driver of global w=
arming. IKEA can't help but level the forests of Siberia and Malaysia t=
o feed the Chinese mills building their flimsy disposable furniture (IKEA i=
s the third largest consumer of lumber in the world). Apple can't help =
it if the cost of extracting the "rare earths" it needs to make m=
illions of new iThings each year is the destruction of the eastern Congo - =
violence, rape, slavery, forced induction of child soldiers, along with poi=
soning local waterways. Monsanto and DuPont and Syngenta and Bayer Crop Sci=
ence have no choice but to wipe out bees, butterflies, birds, small farmers=
and extinguish crop diversity to secure their grip on the world's food=
supply while drenching the planet in their Roundups and Atrazines and neon=
icotinoids.</p>
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This is how giant corporations are wiping out life on earth in the course o=
f a routine business day. And the bigger the corporations grow, the worse t=
he problems become.</p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-heigh=
t:1.5em;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times N=
ew Roman',serif;margin-bottom:1.3em;padding-top:0;margin-left:0;padding=
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In Adam Smith's day, when the first factories and mills produced hat pi=
ns and iron tools and rolls of cloth by the thousands, capitalist freedom t=
o make whatever they wanted didn't much matter because they didn't =
have much impact on the global environment. But today, when everything is p=
roduced in the millions and billions, then trashed today and reproduced all=
over again tomorrow, when the planet is looted and polluted to support all=
this frantic and senseless growth, it matters - a lot.</p>
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The world's climate scientists tell us we're facing a planetary eme=
rgency. They've been telling us since the 1990s that if we don't cu=
t global fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% below <a href=3D"te=
l:1990" value=3D"+661990" target=3D"_blank">1990</a> levels by 2050 we will=
cross critical tipping points and global warming will accelerate beyond an=
y human power to contain it. Yet despite all the ringing alarm bells, no co=
rporation and no government can oppose growth and, instead, every capitalis=
t government in the world is putting pedal to the metal to accelerate growt=
h, to drive us full throttle off the cliff to collapse....</p>
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We all know what we have to do: suppress greenhouse gas emissions. Stop ove=
r-consuming natural resources. Stop the senseless pollution of the earth, w=
aters, and atmosphere with toxic chemicals. Stop producing waste that can&#=
39;t be recycled by nature. Stop the destruction of biological diversity an=
d ensure the rights of other species to flourish. We don't need any new=
technological breakthroughs to solve these problems. Mostly, we just [need=
to] stop doing what we're doing. But we can't stop because we'=
re all locked into an economic system in which companies have to grow to co=
mpete and reward their shareholders and because we all need the jobs....</p>
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Still, it's one thing for James Hansen or Bill McKibben to say we need =
to "leave the coal in the hole, the oil in the soil, the gas under the=
grass," to call for "severe curbs" in GHG [greenhouse gas] =
emissions - in the abstract. But think about what this means in our capital=
ist economy. Most of us, even passionate environmental activists, don't=
really want to face up to the economic implications of the science we defe=
nd....</p>
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Of course, no one wants to hear this because, given capitalism, this would =
unavoidably mean mass bankruptcies, global economic collapse, depression an=
d mass unemployment around the world. That's why in April 2013, in layi=
ng the political groundwork for his approval of the XL pipeline in some for=
m, President Obama said "the politics of this are tough." The ear=
th's temperature probably isn't the "number one concern" =
for workers who haven't seen a raise in a decade; have an underwater mo=
rtgage; are spending $40 to fill their gas tank, can't afford a hybrid =
car; and face other challenges." Obama wants to save the planet but gi=
ven capitalism his "number one concern" has to be growing the eco=
nomy, growing jobs. Given capitalism - today, tomorrow, next year and every=
year - economic growth will always be the overriding priority ... till we =
barrel right off the cliff to collapse....</p>
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If there's no market mechanism to stop plundering the planet then, agai=
n, what alternative is there but to impose an emergency contraction on reso=
urce consumption?</p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:=
1.5em;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New=
Roman',serif;margin-bottom:1.3em;padding-top:0;margin-left:0;padding-l=
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This doesn't mean we would have to de-industrialize and go back to ridi=
ng horses and living in log cabins. But it does mean that we would have to =
abandon the "consumer economy" - shut down all kinds of unnecessa=
ry, wasteful and polluting industries from junkfood to cruise ships, dispos=
able Pampers to disposable H&M clothes, disposable IKEA furniture, endl=
ess new model cars, phones, electronic games, the lot. Plus all the banking=
, advertising, junk mail, most retail, etc. We would have [to] completely r=
edesign production to replace "fast junk food" with healthy, nutr=
itious, fresh "slow food," replace "fast fashion" with =
"slow fashion," bring back mending, alterations and local tailors=
and shoe repairmen. We would have to completely redesign production of app=
liances, electronics, housewares, furniture and so on to be as durable and =
long-lived as possible. Bring back appliance repairmen and such. We would h=
ave to abolish the throwaway disposables industries, the packaging and plas=
tic bag industrial complex, bring back refillable bottles and the like. We =
would have to design and build housing to last for centuries, to be as ener=
gy efficient as possible, to be reconfigurable, and shareable. We would hav=
e to vastly expand public transportation to curb vehicle use but also build=
those we do need to last and be shareable like Zipcar or Paris' munici=
pally-owned "Autolib" shared electric cars.</p>
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These are the sorts of things we would have to do if we really want to stop=
overconsumption and save the world. All these changes are simple, self-evi=
dent, no great technical challenge. They just require a completely differen=
t kind of economy, an economy geared to producing what we need while conser=
ving resources for future generations of humans and for other species with =
which we share this planet....</p>
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5744240" target=3D"_blank">Surviving Climate Change</a><br>
By Michael T. Klare, <em style=3D"vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic=
">TomDispatch</em><br>
18 November 13</p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.5=
em;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Ro=
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....With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods,=
fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life ac=
ross the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging =
in increasingly bold protest actions. Sooner or later, government leaders a=
re likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the e=
nd, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being sw=
ept aside.</p>
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In fact, it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting =
in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. Because cli=
mate change is going to inflict increasingly severe harm on human populatio=
ns, the impulse to rebel is only likely to gain in strength across the plan=
et....</p>
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<em style=3D"vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">[After describing a=
Turkish uprising of this kind, the author turns to China:]</em></p><p alig=
n=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;padding-right:0;margin=
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The same trajectory of events -- a small-scale environmental protest evolvi=
ng into a full-scale challenge to governmental authority -- can be seen in =
other mass protests of recent years.</p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-siz=
e:14px;line-height:1.5em;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,T=
imes,'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:1.3em;padding-top:0;marg=
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ical-align:baseline;text-align:left;direction:ltr">
Take a Chinese example: in October 2012, students and middle class people j=
oined with poor farmers to protest the construction of an $8.8 billion petr=
ochemical facility in Ningbo, a city of 3.4 million people south of Shangha=
i. In a country where environmental pollution has reached nearly unpreceden=
ted levels, these protests were touched off by fears that the plant, to be =
built by the state-owned energy company Sinopec with local government suppo=
rt, would produce paraxylene, a toxic substance used in plastics, paints, a=
nd cleaning solvents.</p>
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Here, too, the initial spark that led to the protests was small-scale. On O=
ctober 22nd, some 200 farmers obstructed a road near the district governmen=
t=92s office in an attempt to block the plant=92s construction. After the p=
olice were called in to clear the blockade, students from nearby Ningbo Uni=
versity joined the protests. Using social media, the protestors quickly enl=
isted support from middle-class residents of the city who converged in thei=
r thousands on downtown Ningbo. When riot police moved in to break up the c=
rowds, the protestors fought back, attacking police cars and throwing brick=
s and water bottles. While the police eventually gained the upper hand afte=
r several days of pitched battles, the Chinese government concluded that ma=
ss action of this sort, occurring in the heart of a major city and featurin=
g an alliance of students, farmers, and young professionals, was too great =
a threat. After five days of fighting, the government gave in, announcing t=
he cancellation of the petrochemical project.</p>
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The Ningbo demonstrations were hardly the first such upheavals to erupt in =
China. They did, however, highlight a growing governmental vulnerability to=
mass environmental protest. For decades, the reigning Chinese Communist Pa=
rty has justified its monopolistic hold on power by citing its success in g=
enerating rapid economic growth. But that growth means the use of ever more=
fossil fuels and petrochemicals, which, in turn, means increased carbon em=
issions and disastrous atmospheric pollution, including one =93airpocalypse=
=94 after another.</p>
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Until recently, most Chinese seemed to accept such conditions as the inevit=
able consequences of growth, but it seems that tolerance of environmental d=
egradation is rapidly diminishing. As a result, the party finds itself in a=
terrible bind: it can slow development as a step toward cleaning up the en=
vironment, incurring a risk of growing economic discontent, or it can conti=
nue its growth-at-all-costs policy, and find itself embroiled in a firestor=
m of Ningbo-style environmental protests.</p>
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This dilemma -- the environment versus the economy -- has proven to be at t=
he heart of similar mass eruptions elsewhere on the planet....</p><p align=
=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;padding-right:0;margin-=
top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bott=
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<em style=3D"vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">[The author then ex=
plores protests in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. and says the following:]</e=
m></p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;padding-r=
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t;direction:ltr">
The Explosions Ahead</p><p align=3D"left" style=3D"font-size:14px;line-heig=
ht:1.5em;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times =
New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:1.3em;padding-top:0;margin-left:0;paddin=
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ine;text-align:left;direction:ltr">
What these episodes tell us is that people around the world are becoming ev=
er more concerned about energy policy as it affects their lives and are pre=
pared -- often on short notice -- to engage in mass protests. At the same t=
ime, governments globally, with rare exceptions, are deeply wedded to exist=
ing energy policies. These almost invariably turn them into targets, no mat=
ter what the original spark for mass opposition. As the results of climate =
change become ever more disruptive, government officials will find themselv=
es repeatedly choosing between long-held energy plans and the possibility o=
f losing their grip on power.</p>
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;margin-top:0;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;mar=
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Because few governments are as yet prepared to launch the sorts of efforts =
that might even begin to effectively address the peril of climate change, t=
hey will increasingly be seen as obstacles to essential action and so as en=
tities that need to be removed. In short, climate rebellion -- spontaneous =
protests that may at any moment evolve into unquenchable mass movements -- =
is on the horizon. Faced with such rebellions, recalcitrant governments wil=
l respond with some combination of accommodation to popular demands and har=
sh repression.</p>
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Many governments will be at risk from such developments, but the Chinese le=
adership appears to be especially vulnerable. The ruling party has staked i=
ts future viability on an endless carbon-fueled growth agenda that is stead=
ily destroying the country=92s environment. It has already faced half-a-doz=
en environmental upheavals like the one in Ningbo, and has responded to the=
m by agreeing to protestors=92 demands or by employing brute force. The que=
stion is: How long can this go on?...</p>
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