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As capitalism continues with business as usual, climate change is fast expanding the gap between rich and poor between and within nations, and imposing unparalleled suffering on those least able to protect themselves.

In THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, anticapitalist activists from five continents offer radical answers to the most important questions of our time:

* Why is capitalism destroying the conditions that make life on Earth possible?
* How can we stop the destruction before it is too late?

Extracting ‘Climate Refugees’ Out Of Thin Air « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

It gets even funnier. Here some quotes almost straight from the mouth of “Koko Warner, a researcher at United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn and one of the principal authors of the most recent analysis“

* “there’s no real science yet”
* she was careful to note that the surveys her team conducted [...] provided only anecdotal evidence
* “You couldn’t call this statistically significant. It’s probably not a large enough sample”

Editorial - Climate Trap - NYTimes.com

Yet neither country has really committed to the kinds of reductions that are needed. A House committee bill that seeks a mandatory 80 percent cut in America’s emissions by midcentury has barely begun its journey through Congress. The Chinese, meanwhile, are not even thinking about mandatory limits; they have said they will try to limit “carbon intensity” — the amount of energy emitted per unit of gross domestic product — which is another way of saying emissions will be allowed to rise.