Kohei Saito has improbably managed to write a Marxist bestseller in Japan, one of capitalism’s bastions. His Hitoshinsei no Shihonron [Capital in the Anthropocene] has sold almost half a million copies since its publication in September 2020. It has won numerous prizes and has been discussed extensively in Japanese media. As a result, Saito has gone from being a relatively obscure academic to becoming something of a Marxist superstar in Japan.
More dissatisfaction with slow-if-at-all progress!!
July 18, 2022
"We need a concrete global response that addresses the needs of the world's most vulnerable people, communities, and nations," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Governments can either come up with a collaborative and urgent plan to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that is already wreaking deadly havoc across the globe or keep allowing corporations to pollute the atmosphere without limit, thereby condemning humanity to a grim future.
Critics say the best argument for blue hydrogen is to “keep the fossil fuel industry in business.”
Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.
In a dim, drafty room in Glasgow, the world’s most powerful bankers gather to unveil how they plan to save the planet. An ominous video plays: Earth, spinning in space, is paired with dramatic footage of sea waves crashing, busy highways and smokestacks spewing vile pollution to the skies. An alarm clock tick, tick, ticks underneath it all until the screen goes black and it rings, screeching across the hall. Flashed across the screen is the reason they’re in the room: “It’s time to finance our future.”
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