![]() ![]() For example, the help now provided to businesses can be conditional on those businesses changing their way of doing business as usual. By focusing on the structural characteristics behind the triple crisis, we can tackle them together. ![]() While there is no silver bullet, it is crucial to resist the false trade-off: Either we face the immediate emergency, or we address climate change. It’s only by understanding the structures that have allowed us to think so mistakenly about our relation to the planet that we can fully face up to the mandates of green innovation and restorative stewardship that we must urgently adopt today. To rescue the planet from the threat of global warming, we must also address the acute deficits of economic justice and democratic participation that helped create and perpetuate the West’s destructive and myopic addiction to fossil fuels in the first place. The destruction of biodiversity (as witnessed in the Amazon), the cruel treatment of animals (in settings like the Wuhan market and the American meatpacking industry), and the melting of the permafrost all contribute to the arrival of new viruses humanity is not used to. Starting from the system we have already built, we need to rethink capitalism, combat negative public-private relationships, and direct finance toward the world’s overlapping crises-and particularly the longer-term challenge of climate change. ![]()
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