Must read!--This is THEIR plan for US!-----Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? | Phil McDuff | Opinion | The Guardian

Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? | Phil McDuff | Opinion | The Guardian:

• Policy tweaks won’t do it, we need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital

"Climate change activism is increasingly the domain of the young, such as 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, the unlikely face of the school strike for climate movement, which has seen many thousands of children walk out of school to demand that their parents’ generation takes responsibility for leaving them a planet to live on.

...This emergent radicalism is already taking people by surprise.
The Green New Deal (GND)... is far from truly radical and already represents a compromise solution, but mainly because the radical economics isn’t a hidden clause, but a headline feature. 

Climate change is the result of our current economic and industrial system. 

...We will simply have to throw the kitchen sink at this.
Policy tweaks such as a carbon tax won’t do it. 
We need to fundamentally re-evaluate our relationship to ownership, work and capital.
The impact of a dramatic reconfiguration of the industrial economy require similarly large changes to the welfare state.
Basic incomes, large-scale public works programmes, everything has to be on the table to ensure that the oncoming system shocks do not leave vast swathes of the global population starving and destitute.
Perhaps even more fundamentally, we cannot continue to treat the welfare system as a tool for disciplining the supposedly idle underclasses.
Our system must be reformed with a more humane view of worklessness, poverty and migration than we have now..."
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