Dear Jorge:
Thanks for sharing this interview.
My take is different. The scientist Moser does not seem to me to use a scientific method in her analysis and "hopeful" proposal.
To ask if and how we can stop catastrophic climate change is to ask why we have a climate crisis in the first place. If we do not know the cause of the disease how can we hope to cure it. Hope alone is not enough.
I am not the only one or the first one who has noticed and argued that the climate crisis, and indeed, the Sixth Extinction crisis, and the threat of a nuclear holocaust are rooted in capitalist eco-social relations of production. If anyone still doubt this I urge
you to take a few minute of your valuable time and read International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s research paper, The Great Acceleration (2015). There are many other such such sources that documents the trends that have brought us to the edge of extinction.
Yet, the climate movement despite of lonely voices such as mine, has repeatedly brushed aside the fact the the crisis is rooted in our social system, in the very fabric of our way of life, in capitalist civilization itself. How can we ever hope that the billions of others who are not part of climate movement today ever move to transcendent the status quo which no politicians in this country or any other has yet called to question.
We need the widest possible democracy, mass education, and mass mobilization to avert the crisis--and by that I mean not just the climate crisis. It is a "package deal." Insects are dying and as E. O. Wilson, the eminent Harvard entomologist tell us they are at the foundation of much of life on Earth. Nuclear arms race is on with the U.S. spending trillions of dollars to maintain its hegemony.
I have no problem with reforms. But anyone who thinks by this or that minor change to the system we can stop this existential crisis has not been paying attention to facts.
I hope all the good folks in Sonoma County who have been laboring to stop climate crisis would also pay attention to these fact.
If anyone questions them, I would be more than happy to respond in an open public meeting.
Do what you think is the best, of course. But please don't look the other way if the change is needed in revolutionary: the future of much of life on the planet is at stake.
For the Earth,
Kamran Nayeri,
Editor: Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism