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Date of Publication: June 3, 2016
Year of Publication: 2016
Publication City: Santa Rosa, CA
Publisher: Post Carbon Institute
Author(s): Ian Angus
Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a critical look at the metaphor of Spaceship Earth and insistence that “we are all in this together,” sharing a common fate and responsibility. Instead, Angus points out that the convergence of extreme weather and extreme inequality means that experiences on Spaceship Earth are far from shared.
Climate change and extreme weather events are not devastating a random selection of human beings from all walks of life. There are no billionaires among the dead, no corporate executives living in shelters, no stockbrokers watching their children die of malnutrition.
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