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Addiction to Fossil Fuels, Capitalism, China, China's Massive Coal Consumption, Climate Change, Climate Tipping Points, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Eco-Apocalypse, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Collapse, Extinction of Man, Greenhouse Extinction, Greenhouse Gases, Liquefied Natural Gas, Mass Die Off, Peak Oil, Peter D. Ward, Synthetic Natural Gas, Toxic Growndwater, Under a Green Sky: Global Warming - the Mass Extinctions of the Past - and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, Water-Energy-Food Nexus
On my downtime right now and trying to recoup from doomer fatigue, but the following story simply reinforces my belief that industrial civilization will die at its own hands while taking the rest of the living planet with it in a manmade greenhouse extinction event. Capitalism gives humans the perverse incentive to value death and artificial wealth over life and nature’s wealth. Note to self – must read everything by Peter Ward.
