{"id":299601,"date":"2021-09-05T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T08:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213361"},"modified":"2021-09-05T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T08:57:57","slug":"republicanism-for-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/05\/republicanism-for-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicanism For The Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_213362\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213362\" class=\"wp-image-213362 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/nasa-vhSz50AaFAs-unsplash-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-213362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nasa\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to read the almost 4,000 pages of the grim new IPCC Climate Report to know the gravity of Earth\u2019s situation where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01448-4\">humans<\/a> are driving at least a million species, including their own, to extinction. We\u2019ve had warnings for a long time, from Joseph Fourier (1824, greenhouse effect), Svante Arrhenius (1896, CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions), Guy Stewart Callendar (1938, global warming) and others through to the IPCC report of 2007 (90% sure that CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions were responsible for most observed climate warming). Scientists had done their thing but where were the political thinkers? The climate disaster is a political problem. You only have to look at who is most affected. It\u2019s no news that low-income individuals and peoples are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, that developing countries suffer about 99% of the casualties caused by it, but the fifty poorest countries account for 1% of greenhouse gas emissions, while 92% are attributable to countries of the so-called Global North (as if this were merely a geographical category) with only 19% of the global population. It\u2019s evident that the problem is neoliberal capitalism, which has been regulating markets in favor of the rich for the last fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this system isn\u2019t presenting solutions. When necessary, there\u2019s a greenwashing tweak here or there. We\u2019re told we\u2019re all guilty and all doomed. Meanwhile big corporations will keep making a killing, billionaires will look for bolt holes in remote places, and governments will keep lying. Their tax systems tell us where their loyalties lie: they\u2019re billionaire friendly. So, it\u2019s <em>apr\u00e8s moi le d\u00e9luge<\/em> because, as we say here in Catalonia, they couldn\u2019t give a rabbit\u2019s fart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/?wcm_redirect_to=post&#038;wcm_redirect_id=213361\">log in<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">or Subscribe.<\/a><br \/>\nIn order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/05\/republicanism-for-the-anthropocene\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/05\/republicanism-for-the-anthropocene\/\">Republicanism For The Anthropocene<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/05\/republicanism-for-the-anthropocene\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by NASA.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to read the almost 4,000 pages of the grim new IPCC Climate Report to know the gravity of Earth\u2019s situation where humans are driving at least a million species, including their own, to extinction. We\u2019ve had warnings for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,1096,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302057,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299601\/revisions\/302057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}