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Climate change is not the basic issue: Geoff Sharp argues that the technoscience--capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.(Essay)
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Arena Magazine
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February 1, 2008
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- Sharp, Geoff
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No, it's not really just about climate change. Nor is it just about the way climate change can affect the viability of all living things. At least in the short term, the public inability to focus on the underlying sources of climate change is equally important. It runs along with the inability to focus on other changes that could undermine our present mode of life. The massive growth of world population is one other obvious example. The basic issue is to identify the common source of a whole complex of such problems. This is a necessary first step towards building a movement that can work towards their resolution.
That paragraph is in the manner of a knee-jerk reaction. It ...