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To save the environment, we must end the profit system
Brazilian magazine interviews Ian Angus about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth, and ecosocialism
Angus, Ian http://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/28/to-save-the-environment-we-must-end-the-profit-system/
Publisher: Climate and Capitalism
Date Written: 28/02/2025
Year Published: 2025
Resource Type: Article
There is no question that human beings have been changing their environments for thousands of years. What we have not had before the past seventy years is change that actually alters the way the Earth System works, an actual break with the conditions that have been dominant on Earth for some twelve thousand years.
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In the last 11,700 years, the earth's climate has been relatively stable. All of the great human civilizations developed during this period, when you had a climate warm enough for agriculture, when ice was restricted to certain limited parts of Earth, and so on. We have had variations, but small ones.
Then, in the past century—and really just in the past forty or fifty years—the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has soared. It is getting close to double what it was for that long period. We can already see the consequences of this. The climate is shifting in real time, much, much faster than has ever happened by natural processes. Changes that took hundreds of thousands or millions of years in the past are now occurring in years or decades.
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