What Peter Kalmus thinks about capitalism
Climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2012 to 2026 and climate activist; author of Being the Change (2017). Writes the Climate Human newsletter on the climate emergency, protest and politics.
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Their wordsAs I've said many times, climate breakdown is nothing more (or less) than the most planetary-scale symptom of the underlying collective trauma from five hundred unhealed, accumulated years of extractive colonial capitalism.
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