An Impending Catastrophe Part 1: Climate Change and Neoliberalism

Are we all screwed? Well some of us definitely are.

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Addendum 1: this is slightly incorrect. 2795 Gt CO2 figure is the current declared reserves of fossil fuels that companies are planning to dig up. The real projected amount of all CO2 underground is much higher since new oil and gas fields are still being discovered.

Addendum 2: As pointed out by Kevin Anderson himself, “emissions reductions of 3-4% is incompatible with growing economy” is more of an assertion rather than empirical fact. However, there has been other studies that supports the idea that limiting global warming to under 2° C requires significant consumption reduction (Raftery et al 2017 [40], Ward et al 2016 [41]) and consumption reduction means slow to no economic growth.

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