Key recent paper outlining why affluence is a major driver of resource use & pollutant emissions.
Wiedmann et al (2020) Scientists’ warning on affluence. Nature Communications 11, 3107. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…
Nov 13, 2019 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
"The corporations and governments of the so-called “developed” countries, in complicity with a segment of the scientific community, have led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system"
"We confront the terminal crisis of a civilizing model that is patriarchal and based on the submission and destruction of human beings and nature that accelerated since the industrial revolution."
