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Like capitalism’s previous calamities, climate change hits the poorest worst 
Cooking oil is distributed in Zimbabwe amid a drought described by experts as the most severe in decades

URUGUAYAN ecologist Silvia Ribeiro, reporting on the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos (where one item on the agenda was “better capitalism”), notes that the “transnationals, the main causes of climate change, finally are recognising the gravity of the situation … what they are doing is settling into a new wave of business opportunities, new ways of taking over land and ecosystems and developing geoengineering capabilities.”

Either capitalists don’t recognise reality or, more likely, have turned a blind eye. 

Climate change, unchecked, promises planetary disaster. All forms of life are threatened. 

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