Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.
Yeah, clearly the problem is capitalism. Non-capitalist countries never despoil the environment with massive projects aimed at industrialization, divert rivers for ill-conceived agricultural development, run decrepit nuclear reactors until they melt down while covering the disaster up, and so forth.