Climate Change - Focus on the Disease, not the Symptom

Here’s an interview with Charles Eisenstein about his book Climate: A New Story, which argues that we are addressing the climate crisis in such a way that will not achieve much.

He says carbon emissions are just one of many symptoms of a dying planet, and that by focussing purely on this one symptom, we avoid looking at all the other symptoms, and we avoid looking at the disease - the economic system, which destroys community, turns us into mindless money-makers, empties our lives of meaning and connection, and manipulates us and leads us to addictions, including an addiction to consuming.

To have any hope at improving the health of the planet, we need to improve the health of our own lives, and to do this we need to heal our sick and corrupted political system and transform the destructive, neoliberal, economic system that requires endless consumption and growth; that cares only for profit, and not for human and planetary well-being. Only then will we be able to revolutionize our way of living; to reconnect with nature and community, and reduce consumption, and thus, emissions.