• ‘Catastrophic’ marine heatwaves are killing sealife and causing mass disruption to UK fisheries
• Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world
• Slender-billed curlew goes extinct (archived link)
• Extreme drought in Colorado could come every 6 years — instead of every 1,000 — due to climate change, study finds (archived link)
• Greenland’s meltwater will slow Atlantic circulation, climate model suggests (archived link)
• Historically bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod has scientists looking for answers (archived link)
• Landslides are a growing climate threat
• Climate change makes vaccines more important—while also undercutting them
• Plastics contribute to ‘triple planetary crisis’ impacts (archived link)
Capitalism is never a helpful word to use in any context. Like all “isms”, it can be reduced practically to the supremacy of capital, corporatism, oligarchism, and market corruption to maximize the supremacy.
Unlike Adam Smith’s origin of free and fair markets, the problem with the practical modern definition is the protection of incumbent oligarchy.
Global warming can be solved through markets. Carbon taxes are a market mechanism. Green energy is the cheapest energy and the best energy investment. When weapons and oil oligarchs own the government and media, they can make you prioritize war, energy dominance, transgender ickyness, and Israel’s “right to exist” as a higher priority than human sustainability.
This “structural communism for the rich” gets called capitalism by all sides, even when it is far removed from free market competition.