Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.
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The absence of a domestic backlash against US Africa policy is testament to the blind spots of our movement.
The British, both left and right, simply do not want to acknowledge the role their government played in destroying Libya and the attendant migration crises.
The violence of slave-owning women especially could go unchecked, particularly when the victims were black children.
