Strangelove gambits fail to account for nature’s delicate complexity. And we should not expect salvation from geo-engineering technologies, such as shooting sulphur into the atmosphere to block sunlight, as these Dr. People are fools to believe that Richard Branson, Bill Gates and other billionaires can solve the problem by funding technical innovations (biofuel for jets, “safe” nuclear power) or by voluntarily “greening” their corporations. Environmental groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund, are wrong to collaborate with the fossil fuel industry and other corporations in lobbying for pro-market climate policies (carbon taxes, cap-and-trade). Given this necessity, strategies that do not change our capitalist economic system are wrong-headed. In short, our only hope against the climate threat is for “deep changes … to the underlying logic of our liberalized and profit-seeking economy.” The only way to counter this power is to combine mass social activism, which blocks all fossil fuel projects, with the rapid development of small-scale renewable energy by cooperatives, indigenous peoples, local governments and individuals. But preventing it seems impossible because capitalism concentrates economic and political power in the hands of those who benefit most from this supercharged system. Now, science is warning us that climate change is the mother of all disruptions. And the rampant economic growth under global capitalism accelerates and intensifies these disruptions. Many people, especially the elites in industrialized countries, ignore the severe environmental disruptions of our extraction-based economy. the Climate, Naomi Klein says that humanity faces an unavoidable choice to “allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate.” Her argument goes like this. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs.
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