Stabilizing the Planet

Stabilizing the Planet

By Dr Arvind Kumar

The present day governments can least be expected to do someday what they are supposed to do – represent their constituents and act in their interests. There also seems lack of initiative on the part of global civil society to inspire a desperately needed consciousness among the people who reject all false solutions while also demanding nothing less a new system which functions to serve only the essential needs of the people while protecting all life and our planet. To date, the most critical aspects of climate change are the imperatives every citizen has the right to know:

1) In order to stabilize the planet, the world must achieve zero carbon emissions. Zero is the only number that matters and it must be achieved in a matter of years, not decades. We are in a planetary emergency at less than 1ºC rise.

2) The current rat race for economic growth is the root cause of climate change.

3) A mass mobilization on a global scale is needed to convert to a clean, perpetual zero carbon economy which rejects all false solutions including green capitalism.

The industrial non-profit complex claims to represent and speak for you in economic forums and government institutions around the world. They don’t. And if they have no members of civil society, they immediately lose their power to speak for us. If they no longer speak for us, they can no longer use civil society as a tool allowing the expansion of the corporate agenda.