George Monbiot on what makes the global ecological crisis, which is reaching a pont of no return now, seemingly impossible to address effectively:
"[G]overnments have failed to break what the economist Thomas Piketty calls the patrimonial spiral of wealth accumulation. As a result, the rich have become ever richer, a process that seems to be accelerating."
#ClimateChange #EconomicDisparity #EconomicElites
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown
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