Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.
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A democracy is not just being “allowed” to “choose” your representatives, but having representatives that actually align with peoples material interests.
Europe – not Africa – is the current epicenter of the disease.
Prisoners and guards are at much greater risk than the general population. “Prison health care systems are not prepared to deal with this epidemic.”
The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments.
Black Misleaders Put Their Own Class Interest Above Black Health
