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COP26 is bound to fail and so are all other Climate Emergency actions… Or… Life on the cliff’s edge
Part I — The Necessity of a non-anthropocentric standpoint
By way of introduction
Figure 1 - Quoting the pictorial views of young ones
For some years now, millions of young ones, kids, teenagers, young adults have been marching, protesting, demanding action in the face of the Climate Emergency, the 6th mass extinction, and countless other ecological and social causes… They keep demanding action, they are not getting it, and they won’t get it. In what follows we will explore how and why, and what other avenues may be open.
Greta Thunberg has been adamant and she is correct: “The climate crisis is just one symptom of a much larger crisis, [including] the loss of biodiversity, the loss of fertile soil but also including inequality and threats to democracy… These are symptoms that we are not living sustainably: we have reached the end of the road.”[1] Bar a few exceptions I will come to in a moment, this kind of awareness has not yet filtered significantly among global decision-making…
