With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth | George Monbiot
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Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The green revolution ended in 2015, when the number of food insecure people began to rise. Around 2.3 billion people in the world were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, or nearly 30 percent of the global population – more than 350 million more people than in 2019.

It’s just a matter of time until simultaneous crop failures, exacerbated by a non-resilient agricultural system, will force conflict between the few maintainers of the current economic system and everyone else.

What the ultra-rich want is to sustain and extend the economic system that put them where they are, but that system is unsustainable.

  • Avogadro Jones@lemmy.sdf.orgOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure I understand. Both ESG investing and DEI marketing are methods of extracting value from capital. Last I heard, insane far left radicals are demonstrably not capitalists. Consider how psychopathic plutocrats have known for centuries that spewing carbon into the atmosphere would eventually trigger catastrophic environmental destruction, yet did it anyway. This is likely less hoax than reality.

    Also, evoking a narrowly defined postgraduate thought experiment is meaningless in this context.