03.05.2015 - 02:55 [ Jacobin ]

The Anthropocene Myth – Blaming all of humanity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook.

Fifth, advanced capitalist states continue relentlessly to enlarge and deepen their fossil infrastructures — building new highways, new airports, new coal-fired power-plants — always attuned to the interests of capital, hardly ever consulting their people on these matters. Only the truly blind intellectual, of the Paul Kingsnorth-type, can believe that “we are all implicated” in such policies.