Tell me again how the market delivers the structural+behavioural change needed to avoid this? #IPCCreport 1/ Short answer: it won't... 
2/ We need to take control of the #COP26 agenda from below. Simple question for all national leaders: how does your proposed action lead to zero net carbon before 2050? Right now almost none can answer...
3/ ... because the kind of capitalism needed to deliver ZNC is unacceptable to the capitalists who exist, and they have monopolised power, finance, communications and the state...
4/ The #IPCC is rightly apolitical - so it can never say what is staring us in the face: the entire history of industrial capitalism is based on the use of heat engines whose energy source was carbon...
5/ ... what needs to happen, the modal changes, the changes in urban/rural structure, behaviour, ownership patterns - will be as big as the transition from windmills to steam engines... I don't care what you call it...
6/ ...I called it post-capitalism because that's the best label for a non-scarcity based transition beyond the market - and I called in 2015 for a "revolutionary reformism"...
7/ ... the short term, immediate actions needed: fuse central banks/treasuries, nationalise finance, energy and transport and inject massive resources into physical transformation of cities, homes, machines - so they run without carbon..
8/ ... the tragedy is, in many countries - not all - there is a social coalition that could begin the post-carbon transition; it's just that we face a coalition of evil: big tech, big energy, big finance, big media, big tax evasion...
9/ ... the further tragedy (for the rich)? You could do it all and retain some form of capital accumulation/fiscal solvency if you started now or earlier. The longer you leave it, the more expropriations there are gonna be...
10/ Bottom line: capitalism is unlikely to survive the scale of transition needed. uk.bookshop.org/books/postcapi…
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