It is entirely within the grasp of humanity to stop global catastrophe driven by climate and ecological crisis. All we need to do, is to: 1) Rapidly phase out fossil fuel burning. 2) Move away from mass livestock farming and other unsustainable agricultural practise. 3) Stop systematically destroying natural habitat and biodiversity. 4) Move away from artificially enforced competitiveness, as humans are an innately cooperative species, and have to be coerced to be competitive, and work towards the common good, as you'd expect in a planetary emergency. This isn't really any sort of secret and was well known at the time of the 1972 UN Environment Conference, and certainly by the time of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Absolutely the only reason we haven't changed business as usual, is the richest and most powerful people on earth, are making massive amounts of money from business as usual. The usual excuse is this is impossible as civilized society depends on the burning of fossil fuels. Let me put this into perspective. Yet less than 18% of the global population own a car, and over 80% have never flown at all, or hardly ever. So clearly over 80% of the global population don't find these activities necessary. Finally, the top 1% have higher emissions, than the bottom 66%, which really explains why we're carrying on with business as usual, on a suicidal path. The top 1% need to keep on burning fossil fuels to fuel their extravagant lifestyles, that 99% of the population don't have. So when the oligarch owned media, tell us we need to keep burning fossil fuels to maintain civilization. What they actually mean, is that they and the owners of the media they work for, need to maintain their wealth and luxury lifestyles. If most of you end up starving to death, so be it. Because they have the moral consciences of psychopaths. theguardian.com/environment/…